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...artist credits his period as a billboard painter, following his departure from the University of Minnesota, with pointing him toward both the idiom and the mystique of the open road. He uses cars, planes and the notion of motion generally to convey what he considers basic American traits: devotion to progress and prodigality, record-shattering creativity and waste...
...prime-time television (her stint on last week's Kraft Music Hall was the first), and started getting offers for glossy nightclub bookings. By last week, she had won all but one of the major trade awards open to her-and last week she won that one too: Billboard magazine's citation as the top female singer...
...material as well as topic, they are timely, for the smoothly lacquered collages are built of magazine scraps and subway billboard posters painted, pasted together and occasionally combined by photomontage. Nonetheless, the pictures illustrate the difference between journalism and art, for Bearden brings to his panoramas a poet's fantasy, a professional's technique, and a philosopher's understanding of reality...
...city had risen to the occasion. The Knot-Hole Gang clustered about the 200-foot high struts of the Old Grand-Dad billboard that peers down into Fenway Park. On a nearby apartment building five button-down pioneers looked out from the highest outcropping of stone, twenty-three stories above the ground. The Red Sox had inspired Bostonians to assault modern architecture and advertising--which was more than Louise Day Hicks would ever...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...