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...middle years, especially those spent in Cuba. Its object is to sketch the kind of relations Lam set up between his Afro-Cuban heritage, the work of other Cuban artists, and the avant-gardes (the word still meant something in the '40s) of Paris and New ) York. Its catalog, with essays by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Lowery Stokes Sims and others, does a fine job of explicating the roots and routes of this border crosser's life...
Deere & Co. listened to protests and pulled catalog ads for a "schizophrenic" power mower, putting in its place a public service ad ; that read, "The most shocking thing about mental illness is how little people understand about it." Wordstar took "loony bin," "booby hatch" and "funny farm" out of its thesaurus list of synonyms for "institution...
Stewart Brand, editor of the hippie-era Whole Earth Catalog, describes cyberpunk as "technology with attitude." Science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling calls it "an unholy alliance of the technical world with the underground of pop culture and street-level anarchy." Jude Milhon, a cyberpunk journalist who writes under the byline St. Jude, defines it as "the place where the worlds of science and art overlap, the intersection of the future and now." What cyberpunk is about, says Rudy Rucker, a San Jose State University mathematician who writes science-fiction books on the side, is nothing less than "the fusion...
...bought in a dime store and set in front of mirrors, without many people noticing. A second group of objects, vacuum cleaners displayed in highly lighted Plexiglas cases, failed at first to excite the indifferent collectors. How could this be? "I've always loved sales," Koons remarks in the catalog, "and to me, being a salesman is being very generous to the public because you're meeting the needs of the people...
...Koons' way of looking radical to the highly acculturated is to play a tease: Don't you really prefer silly knickknacks to Poussins or Picassos? Don't you long for the paradise of childhood, before discrimination began? "Don't divorce yourself from your true being," he wheedles in the catalog, in the accents of a quack therapist. "Embrace it. That's the only way you can truly move on to become a new upper class . . ." One may be permitted to demur, especially when the call to regression comes from an artist so transparently on the make...