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...Rauschenberg decided he would paint. He found some pigments and brushes. There was no privacy in the barracks, and to be seen painting would have provoked endless ridicule. One night Rauschenberg locked himself in the latrine with a scrap of cardboard on his knee and secretly made his first daub, a portrait of a Navy buddy. Thirty years later, he still thinks of that illicit first night as exemplary. "There always ought to be an element of secrecy, of criminality, about making art," he says. "But if you're successful, it's hard to maintain. We all get comfortable...
James Hampton. a native of Washington D.C. who died some twelve years ago, was inspired by visions of God and His angels to build these crowns, lecterns, podiums, eagles, tablets and of course the Throne, constructed of cardboard, light bulbs and tinfoil...
Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...
...like Bob Fosse's Lenny a misrepresentation. That movie tried to deal with other, broader things, not what Lenny lived for; this does. The Producers lets an audience know the wild juices that flow when a comedian works--it's like running for your life. "I'm wearing a cardboard belt!" Mostel screams, undoing his pants and inflicting his misery and poverty on all of us with the most venal of ulterior motives, sweating grease and doing the other things a great comedian does...
...patriarch admits to death his incapacity for the love "we," the people he commands, represent. His efforts to fill that void with the solitary vice of power only produced hollow lies, he admits at the last; cardboard constructions which "we," the people of everyday, soon learned to walk around and ignore, leaving him to act alone on the set built of his barren lust...