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Word: cassoni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Second-Generation Abstraction | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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