Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent releases resurrect the ghosts of GERALDINE FARRAR (Everest/Scala) and MARY GARDEN (Odyssey), titans of opera's "golden age" who died early this year. These old, faint and scratchy performances used to be collector's items before being reissued; they are still priceless to those who are nostalgic about the history of glorious, if defiantly individualistic, singing...
...Biennale. Onetime Sign Painter James Rosenquist composed his images of the modern U.S.A. -from hair dryers to atomic bombs-on a canvas titled F-lll, which measures 13 ft. longer than the 85-ft. jet fighter-bomber itself. The painting was bought in 1965 for $60,000 by Manhattan Collector Robert Scull, and is currently one of the hits of the U.S. pop art exhibition in Sao Paulo...
...culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers warns: "It is easy to be deluded by camp followers. The public is buying a lot of bad copies of truly creative work...
...that, for all the confusion, art is being bought. Some people buy it because they honestly want to learn to understand it, some because it is fashionable-some because it is fun. "Art is one of the ways to find out what it's all about," maintains Collector Scull. "The art world is live ly now," says Painter Jasper Johns. "People sense this, and wish to be involved with something that's lively...
Soup-Can Glasses. That the scene is lively, Tony Smith certainly agrees. While no pop art collector himself, he still thinks its cheerful acceptance has added yeast to the ferment. "It has helped art move from a private scene to a public scene," he points out. "In an odd way, the people who supported pop contributed to this by living public lives through mass media. We got to see their collections in magazines; they were talked about in the press, on TV. Their lives became public, and it made the general public much more aware of art and artists...