Word: captions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...
...GRAND MANEUVERS OF THE REVEREND ON VIA VENETO, chortled the next day's picture caption, while the subject of the story, privately reprimanded by the Vatican, prepared to return to the relative freedom and anonymity of New York. "Italy has nothing more for me," said Gussoni. "It's better to lose your health than your reputation...
...their very own, though once they explode it over the Sahara, they won't have it anymore. A cartoon last summer depicted an angular de Gaulle, clad in intrepid explorer togs, leading a safari of equally angular Africans, who carried on their heads a single oversized bomb. The caption read "La France va disposer de la bombe atomique," (France will dispose of the atomic bomb), a direct quotation from a de Gaulle address...
...Your caption for "Sculpture 1959" ["Elegant, Brutal & Witty"] should have read: "Bizarre, Idiotic & Disgusting...
...issue, TIME ran a reproduction of De Kooning standing in front of one of his recent paintings, the caption reading: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway." In the plate, TIME somehow expanded the original painting by adding a foot or more to its top and sides. Under the circumstances the caption might have read: "De Kooning and Merritt Parkway Extension...