Word: contempo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest boosters of pop art. As if to confound critics who are proclaiming that the boom is already a bust, Castelli in the past fortnight has managed to sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...
...necessity, by proclivity, and by delight," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "we all quote." In reporting the course of contempo rary history, TIME quotes by necessity, because the things that people say reveal much about what is going on in the world. And we also quote by delight. Some examples in this week's TIME...