Word: chryssa
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...CHRYSSA, 33, a Greek-born artist (she does not use her last name) discovered the new medium when she arrived in New York in 1954, and was stunned by that acropolis of billboard communication, Times Square. "It was a garden of light," she says. That, combined with her native love of calligraphy, led her to study sign lettering, and soon to neon itself. "Neon is made out of a clear, light material-like glass buildings. Transforming the cultural world into the world of the laboratory, it brings art nearer to science." For her just-opened show in Manhattan...
SCULPTURE WITH SOUND-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Synesthetic creations by 27 modern artists titillate both eye and ear with a clattering symphony including Chryssa's Boozooki, Bruce Connor's Tick Took Jelly Clock Cosmotron, Allan d'Arcangelo's Metronomes, Richard Stankiewicz' Storm Gong, George Ortman's Heartbeat, Alexander Calder's Three Gongs And Red, Man Ray's Indestructible Object, Robert Rauschenberg's Dry Cell, Jean Tinguely's Radio Drawing. Through...
...populations" after the Greco-Turkish War. Other Communist leaders were spawned in that tragic migration. Nicolas Zachariades, father of Greek Communism; Demetrios Partsalides, who became head of the Communist-front EAM; Petros Roussos, who became editor of Rizospastis, principal Communist newspaper in Greece; Roussos' petite, intense wife Chryssa Hadjivassilou, who now likes to think of herself as Greece's Ana Pauker...