Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether it was the finest Scottish salmon and Italy's best Parmigiano-Reggiano or dismal Aussie Pie, which was baked and frozen Down Under, with its bland beef filling in a crust much like damp shirt cardboard...
...water symbolizing martyrs' blood flows from a fountain. Every day bulldozers work at the cemetery, carving out new rectangular plots the size of Olympic swimming pools for those slain in battle. Gravediggers say they fill one with bodies in two weeks. The dead arrive so rapidly that pieces of cardboard, usually stapled with photographs of the fallen, mark burial sites until marble slabs can be put in place. Wives and mothers in chadors, the flowing black robes, move silently through the rows of grave markers, washing the dust away from one, squatting silently by another. Hundreds of Iranian flags flutter...
...contracts. The show records a long-due disenchantment with the lumpy rhetoric of neoexpressionism, the hot ticket of the early '80s. The American confusion between size and scale remains. There may be a lesson in the fact that Richard Tuttle's three tiny, delectable pieces made of painted cardboard, scraps of wood and bits of twisted wire "carry" every bit as sharply as Judy Pfaff's enormous mural, which looks like a vastly inflated Frank Stella made of patio furniture. But at least the stage props of Deep Authenticity are less wearisomely apparent in this show than they used...
...with modern architectural practice, get out the saws, hammers and nails and build these unusual structures themselves. Since their first project, a child's play structure built to resemble an enormous cockroach, they've painstakingly assembled twelve houses, from San Francisco to New Hampshire, parking tents, trailers or makeshift cardboard homes on site so they could live there as they worked, encouraging clients to pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes...
...elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly in front of papier-mache reconstructions. Even so, fiction that dovetails with fact remains alluring to authors and readers alike...