Word: clay
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Much of the story of modern sculpture is bound up with welding and assembling images from sheet metal, rather than modeling in clay, casting in bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group...
...block was not a house but a farm, where each man could grow his own food on an acre block reserved for him since birth--and he was easy to dismiss as hopelessly Utopian. But fortunately for history, he often got to lay his dreams down in concrete and clay tile, giving us Fallingwater, New York City's Guggenheim Museum, the S.C. Johnson Wax building, the Robie House, Unity Temple and more than 450 other buildings, each a lesson in poetic functionalism. And the buildings not only fulfilled his ideals, they also worked. Alas, his creations were decorative and quixotic...
...That's one of the mysteries of Bob," says Clay Chandler '85, a correspondent who covers Rubin for The Washington Post and describes him as a "very private man" who "doesn't like to show his hand...
...about much. That's because the small Georgia city, four hours south of Atlanta, is remembered as the place that turned back Martin Luther King Jr., sending the crusader home empty-handed. Albany sits in the heart of peanut country amid a dusty interweave of farm towns and red clay countryside. It's a world of tradition and habit; both dictate that this district belong to the Democrats. All the same, Albany is headquarters of Dylan Glenn's run for Congress, and if the 28-year-old wins, his election as the district's first Republican will be least among...
...very first experience with a hair-cut at Harvard was at La Flamme. I had no control over what the barber was doing and he completely mangled my hair," says D. Clay Ackerly '01. "I tried to find an alternative to the La Flamme experience with no success. Finally...my hair necessitated another trip to La Flamme [and] I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome...