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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's novel, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval.
Sven Lukin, 31, a Latvian-born New Yorker, is another art pioneer of top. His zest for contours dates back to his student days at the University of Pennsylvania, where he watched architecture students make models of shaped canvas. Currently he is curling scrollwork-like strips of canvas out into...
...England, Richard Smith, 34, is the "top" man, and his work is slated to be shown at this year's forthcoming Venice Biennale. Smith started shaping his canvases for pop art effects when he painted a cigarette box whose corner emerged from the flat picture plane. As his works moved from pop to top, they thrust forward from the wall more and more. "I always have to have the wall plane," he says, "and to think of the painting as an extension of it." One of his future projects he calls tents-canvas forms up to 18 feet tall...
As an art form, top art stands somewhere between collage, in which objects are pasted onto the canvas, and sculpture, in which the work exists to be viewed in the round. But however hybrid the medium, it has won astonishing acceptance. Hinman, for instance, has had only two one-man...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval.