Word: brac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even know how important he was.' " The Dadaists (among them Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst) took their name from a nonsense phrase, but thought they were making sense of a kind. In the disillusioned aftermath of World War I. Schwitters used the bric-a-brac of everyday life-fragments of newspapers, railroad maps, timetables, string, bottle caps, photographs-to assemble collages (see color) that were a twitting comment on bourgeois life and an already demolished world. To Schwitters a canceled imperial postage stamp represented the collapse of the Hohenzollerns. Schwitters' collages were not meant merely...
...Tenor James Melton accepted, wound up selling his whole shebang of oldtime Americana to the host. Melton's collection, one of the finest privately owned "autoramas" in existence, includes both antique and classic cars, an 1829 steam locomotive, an 1893 steam-driven stage coach, enough other bric-a-brac to extend its inventory to 30 pages. Estimated price on the lot: about $250,000. Rockefeller will house the collection in a special building to be erected at Winrock Farm, charge admission fees, which will go to his charitable Rockwin Foundation...
...press release on the event last week, it tactfully announced: "We invite the press to name this new art form for us." The press was at a loss too, for much of the "new art form" is a bewildering jumble of horrors: tortured junk and bric-a-brac, flattened tin cans and old clothes, or simply an old chair with its innards ripped...
...their mysterious drives. Even after he died, she carried on those expeditions alone. She seemed to have plenty of money, and the occasional visitor to her home, which she_ kept surrounded by two fences, could catch a glimpse of what she spent it on-Chinese bric-a-brac, 18th century books, and antique card cases that she had persuaded her amenable husband to adopt as a hobby. But what of the "pictures" she once maintained she was after? No one ever saw more than two or three...