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...Ancient Cloth...
Variations: Red Sox hats are a Boston favorite. Straw pith helmets, boaters or cowboy hats are cool, as are hats with solar-powered fans built in. Terry-cloth hats can be soaked in cold water, then placed for an evaporative cooling effect...
Somehow Pat Nixon never quite captured the fancy of the American public. The cameras that caught the angular planes of her face missed the soft contours of her heart. Her Republican, cloth-coat persona was no match for the glamour of her predecessors: Jacqueline Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...
...Abakanowicz's hallmark figures, molded from resin-stiffened burlap. Headless and repetitious, they look "expressionist" but aren't: their true ancestors are ancient kouroi and Egyptian scribes planted on their plinths. It is amazing to see how much inward dignity Abakanowicz can give to a human figure made of cloth, and how many subtle variations she can infuse into a whole row of them. They are funereal: the wrinkled burlap reminds you of mummified skin. When Abakanowicz lines up 10, 20 or 30 more or less identical figures, as in Infantes, 1992, you think of prison lines and victims...
...These cloth shells also have their distinct grace. Several figures of circus performers, riding on iron-wire wheels, refer to Giacometti's famous charioteer and, through that, back to common sources in Etruscan antiquity; the precarious poise of the acrobat's body is part of Abakanowicz's general imagery of human vulnerability and risk...