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Quite literally, Oldenburg envisions these objects--clothespins, or three-way plugs--as monuments. With the exception of the Typewriter Eraser, each has been executed on a colossal scale. These colossi are impressive: a ten-foot clothespin towers up in golden splendour, refined, stripped to bare geometric form; a 20-foot vinyl three-way plug hangs limply from the ceiling, inviting caresses. (In the present exhibit, the larger pieces are at MIT, while the drawings, for the most part, are at the ICA. The MIT part of the exhibit should be seen after the ICA portion, since the large sculptures...
Gnomes in the Garden. The experiment works, but not always as it was meant to. "The picturesque charms of Newport," writes Princeton's Hunter, "with its inexhaustible variety of visual backgrounds, should help mitigate the brute power of contemporary sculpture colossi." Mitigate is scarcely the word. The landscape sometimes annihilates the sculpture. That vast, wrinkled plane of sea fringed by blue pudding-stone bluffs is so much stronger than some of the works perched above it that objects like George Sugarman's 18-ft. Kite Castle, 1974, Alexander Calder's stabile or Robert Murray's pleated...
...wrote his mother, came "through, or rather in, a glowing light that was like melted silver on the sea." For all those months he remained plunged in a world of vivid color impressions: black earth, purple desert, the bleached bird droppings of 4,000 years running down obelisks and colossi, the deliriously blue sky. The official object of their expedition left him quite cold: he uttered a cry of conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made...
They prize the economic growth, advanced technology and jobs that American investment brings, but at the same time worry that Yankee corporate colossi will rob them of economic independence. Thus foreign investments are alternately sought out and chased away. Now the cycle is in a marked swing toward nationalism. Country after country is imposing or contemplating restrictions on the American investment that it was once pleased to get. Generally, the measures are aimed against certain types of investment, not against all U.S. capital-a policy of "Some Yankees Go Home." Among the places where it is manifest...
...them wear a subtle expression that presumably only sophisticated sculptors would attempt or could achieve; the best rank among the greatest sculptures of all time. What men produced these monsters? Where did these men come from? Where did they go? How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi...