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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG-Castelli, 4 East 77th St. Newest turn in the Pop cycle is the technique of enlarging colored photographs and transferring them to canvas by a silk-screen color separation process. Rauschenberg laces it all together with splotches of paint; the result is something like a battered billboard. Through...
Ogilvy is still dread Scot enough to voice some stubborn convictions about the wrongs of his craft. He believes that billboard advertising should be abolished. And on the question of commercial television, Ogilvy is candid: "As a practitioner I know that television is the most potent advertising medium ever devised, and I make most of my living from it. But as a private person I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching it without commercial interruptions...
...Billboard. The nude in Wesselmann's Great American Nude might have been done by a distant-very distant-relative of Henri Matisse. But only a pop artist would insert her between a panorama photograph of a city and a bed of red and white stripes straight from Old Glory. Wesselmann, 32, talks a good deal about the "esthetic relationship" between what is painted in a collage and the object that is stuck onto it, but his esthetics often turn out to be a bag of raucous gimmicks that merely assault the nerves. He pictures one of his nudes with...
...railing is narrow, and the gorge below is deep, but readers can test how well McPhee succeeded in "The Man on the Billboard" in SHOW BUSINESS. He was helped immeasurably by the candor of that most complicated and honest man, Richard Burton. At one point, Elizabeth Taylor warned her friend that he was putting himself in peril by talking so freely to McPhee. By way of answer, Burton turned to McPhee. "You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice...
...half-acre billboard above Manhattan's Times Square, there are no names. There is no title. There is no need for one, for the billboard is instantly recognizable as 20th Century-Fox's proclamation of its $40 million movie Cleopatra, by far the most expensive picture ever made, which opens a few weeks hence. Nor do the two lovers need an introduction. The tabloids have taken care of that...