Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike Todd's T-21, composed of a real, honest-to-goodness No. 1 wood right off the links, to which have been attached clusters of wooden globules. - Ernest Trova's Study, repeating his theme of falling men, with six chrome-plated look-alikes joined at their feet in a sculpture similar to the spiky piece in a child's game of jacks...
...panels, some aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic style...
...unique outlook. He once did a 58-ft. by 20-ft. portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences." F-111 is thus his own superbillboard illustration of modern industrial culture...
...AMERICAN CHROME by Edwin Gilbert. 448 pages. Putnam...
...market. The Pontiac Tem pest, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, all of which were upgraded from compact to intermediate in the fall of 1963, made sales gains of 72%, 41% and 26% respectively. Reinforcing this customer trading-up was a further proliferation of optional equipment, ranging from chrome-plated air cleaners to rear-seat speakers. "So many different combinations are available now," says Pontiac Division's General Manager "Pete" Estes, "that we could build 18,184,320 Pontiacs without building two cars alike...