Word: circularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine. They were, in fact, designed with the aid of a protractor and compass, although unlike many minimal sculptors, Stella still believes in executing his works by hand. The paintings were named (Sabra, Sinjerli) for ancient cities in Asia Minor only because Stella has been looking at plans for circular cities in a book on Islamic architecture...
Rarely has the giant internal ramp of Manhattan's circular Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, been put to better use. A visitor attending the Guggenheim's fifth International Exhibition can proceed downward through its five spirals, passing 100 works by 80 sculptors from 20 countries arranged by generation-and thereby receive a gradual baptism into the myriad ways that sculpture has evolved in the past 20 years...
Among the most dramatic exhibits set up by d'Harnoncourt is a circular roomful of giant, moonlike women's heads with protruding noses and eyes set in their cheeks that seem to float like his "classic" line drawings and etchings of the 1930s. The busts were inspired by Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso's mistress of that period, modeled in clay and cast in bronze-yet the world heretofore has known them only by the paintings he made of them...
...north Pacific before they swim back to mate and die in the same streams where they were born. Though international fishing treaties preclude other nations, notably the Japanese, from fishing closer to Alaska than 175° west longitude, the fish themselves cross that line in the course of their circular migration. As a result, Japanese catches helped to deplete the supply available in Alaskan rivers this summer for U.S. fishermen...
...Beatles seem to synthesize their sensations into a position of non-position that exemplifies the circular course of transcendental experience. A freedom love is revealed in a music and manner that describes a balance between nihilism and mundane involvement...