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...mountains, both by day and during the white nights," he has recalled, Gabo returned again and again to "questions of space and time and to a search for means of expressing them." He soon found it. In 1915 he constructed a head from intersecting planes of colored cardboard, later translated it into plywood, sheet metal and plastic...
...rotary motion to the air being drawn through it by the fan. The rising smoke gradually turned into a column that rotated at 1,200 r.p.m., whistling around in the cage at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. Pieces of confetti on the floor of the cage-and then a cardboard model of a house-were sucked up into the whirling column...
Amid eroding plaster and stacked-up cardboard cartons live two newlywedded bohemian idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since...
There were paintings, sculpture, dance and music-of a sort. At the happenings that Kaprow and his colleagues staged, the "actors" splashed paint on canvas, played electronic John Cage music, danced like puppets with leaden strings, climbed up cardboard mountains, peeled oranges and clothes on stage. To get the audience into the act, they gave them newspapers to tear up, even ran their hands up female spectators' legs...
Inside the basement's cardboard coffins lies an incredible variety of artistic curios. Ranging from flamboyant pictorial designs to quiet calligraphy, most jackets in the Harvard and Kleist collections are from books of fiction, where jackets are commercially crucial. The jacket-designer's task is to capture in one visual moment the character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through...