Word: chiselers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here we are in the all too near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...Louise of Sweden once remarked about her husband's lifelong search for archaeological treasures. Now 89, King Gustaf VI Adolf still enjoys an annual exploration in Italy. His latest dig is at Viterbo, 50 miles north of Rome, where His Majesty donned a jaunty hat, seized pick and chisel, and set forth to unearth the secrets of an Etruscan burial ground...
...lindenwood, has all the pathos of a spiritualized image discovering the resistances of the body: the long oval face, the crudely gouged hair, the hacked spear wound and the thin, knob-bled torso almost physically displace the pain of nailed flesh into the pain of wood attacked by a chisel...
...marriage disintegrated, the great figure paintings and still lifes (31, 36, 37) began alternating with a sequence of brutally distorted female heads. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait, 1929 (38) is nothing less than a pictorial act of revenge: the savage, angular profile of Olga, with its chisel teeth and spike tongue about to devour the undistorted silhouette of Picasso's own profile. Its delirium is prolonged, in a different way, in the Surrealist beach scenes at Dinard, like Bather Playing with a Ball, 1932 (39), populated by elephantine, grotesque she-bathers who balloon on the sand...
...increasingly indulged himself in carving. Since 1965, he has spent his summers at Forte dei Marmi near the famous Carrara marble quarries. He sometimes spends whole days tramping over the quarries to find the right piece of stone. "I like the actual activity of carving. With a hammer and chisel in hand, my worries go, and I begin to whistle and sing without knowing...