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Melting Typewriter. The canonization of pop art had been rumored for weeks, and Pop Art Dealer Leo Castelli had campaigned assiduously for the winner. Nevertheless, the European critics fumed. Paris' Combat said the prize to Rauschenberg was "an offense to the dignity of artistic creation." Rome's pro-Communist Paese Sera called it "a grotesque Biennale," and the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano editorialized on "the total and general defeat of culture...
FRANK STELLA-Castelli, 4 East 77th. Compared with his black and white pinstripes, Stella's new deep purple progressions down the geometric mean are a burst into song. He names these paintings for friends, although only one of them is a square. For example his dealer, Leo Castelli, is a triangle. Through...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG-Castelli, 4 East 77th St. Newest turn in the Pop cycle is the technique of enlarging colored photographs and transferring them to canvas by a silk-screen color separation process. Rauschenberg laces it all together with splotches of paint; the result is something like a battered billboard. Through...
...Paul Jenkins and the Spaniard Tapies, she has turned her gallery over to "happenings" and "environments," once even allowed her entire backyard to be filled with tires in the name of art. She could well be called the bridge between the established abstractionists and the new wave that the Castelli Gallery and later the Green, Stone and Stable galleries have encouraged...
...might say," explains Castelli, "that I acted in enlightened self-interest." Such international shows can make prices go up, and eventually Castelli's profits on Jasper Johns will more than make up for the $15,000 he sacrificed for the Paris show...