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...energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann's work reflects America's amorous obsessions. In his windy and erratic assessment, "Critic" Slim Stealingworth tends to overvalue the artist's impact on his age. That is to be expected. Stealingworth, after...
...think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. -Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road...
These days Ogden Nash might have trouble seeing the forest as well as the trees. Now appearing along American highways are giant, air-filled, three-dimensional billboards. Since Robert Keith Vicino, 28, the president of Robert Keith & Co. of San Diego, created his first inflatable billboard display (a 30-ft. tall beer bottle for Budweiser in 1979), demand has inflated as fast as the blow-up advertisements. This year Vicino expects sales of $1.2 million...
...bulbous parts of the billboards, which are attached to a regular outdoor advertisement, are made out of vinyl-coated nylon, and a small electric fan directed inside the air bag keeps them inflated. The inflatables tout everything from hot dogs to radio stations. One in Toronto that shows a 12-ft.-long airplane nose sticking out of an advertisement for Pacific Western Airlines cost $4,000, and a billboard in The Bronx that has a 23-ft-long hand pulling a cigarette out of a 12-ft.-high pack of Kent Golden Lights...
BLAKE EDWARDS, the ads tell us, is "the man who painted the panther pink," and put Ravel's Bolero on Billboard's Top Forty. Yet before reviving The Pink Panther, Edwards sired a series of flops that turned Hollywood against him. No longer able to make films on the West Coast, Edwards produced the Panther series in Europe. From the height of his knowledge about Tinsel Town, Edwards, with all credibility now restored, takes a pot shot at Hollywood--the angry gesture, it would seem, of a much maliened...