Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks like a real retrospective but is not one. It covers the past seven years of Salle's work and is -- to pinch a term from Jean Baudrillard, the French semiotician whose phrases are parroted everywhere in the art world today and recur like pious ejaculations in the exhibition catalog -- a "simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would have seemed absurd...
Mail order forms the bulk of Bean's business: last year $308 million of the company's sales came from catalog orders. The firm's reputation for homey efficiency comes from its ability to deliver virtually any item almost anywhere in the U.S. and Canada within 72 hours. During peak season, more than 28,000 telephone orders a day flood the Bean switchboards. Computers help keep track of the models, colors and sizes that are in stock at any given moment, and orders are filled accurately 99.8% of the time. The company provides repairs as well as sales. Each year...
...genesis and development of abstract art," argues the show's curator, Maurice Tuchman, in an enormous catalog comprising essays by him and 19 other contributors, ". . . reflects a desire to express spiritual, utopian or metaphysical ideals that cannot be expressed in traditional pictorial terms." One typical preoccupation was with the idea that the universe, instead of being the vast agglomeration of distinct things perceived by science or realism, was a single, living entity, pervaded by "cosmic" energies; these revealed themselves in "vibrations," the formative agents of all material shapes. Hence the desire to paint archetypal forms, so that Mondrian's rectangles...
...reliably as ever, and the large-scale LGBs, made in West Germany, could be the grandest toy trains ever. A starter set (about $330) with a steam locomotive and two passenger cars is a richly detailed invitation to further excursions that can be plotted from the elaborate LGB catalog, which is a real itinerary for dreaming...
...assumptions of Golden Days is that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the actual disaster is left unclear, although the reader has been prepared for its reason: the inevitability of male conflict. This is a stimulating and not unreasonable assertion, although it is not convincingly worked out as fiction. Neither is the author's romantic projection that the destruction is a new beginning that will eliminate...