Word: cruciform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cruciform Mazes. The Moscow group is frankly nostalgic-and, since the past is most memorably represented in the Soviet Union by its cupolaed churches and moldering mosques, their imagery tends to be religious. This is particularly evident in the glittering panels of Dimitri Plavinsky, 30, a painter who has traveled extensively in Central Asia, where, he writes, "I came to know the magic voice of silence communicated by the crumbling walls of mosques, mazes of deserted cities and the intricate patterns of Asian mosaics...
...Plavinsky's works in New York is in fact called The Voices of Silence. It is a semiabstract panel composed of fragments of Moslem designs, a hand print, a feather, a fish, cruciform mazes and futuristic line designs. Prayer is a pen-and-ink drawing of two hands pressed together, with passages lettered beneath in a Russian so archaic that it is said that even Slavonic scholars have been unable to decipher it. Coelacanth is a brightly colored portrait of the prehistoric fish, his wizened face gleaming like a phosphorescent fossil. Plavinsky, says Mrs. Stevens, is entirely unaware that...
...tilted up from the floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...
Rarely since James Joyce have the levels of puzzlement been laid on so thick. The "stations" of the title are, among other things: 1) a series of 14 Manhattan subway stations, describing a cruciform route, compulsively traveled one night by a homosexual voyeur who is fleeing from a grafting vice-squad detective; 2) the 14 Stations of the Cross; 3) the nightly rounds of a nurse; 4) the comfort stations at the subway stops. Every step of the book is dense in meanings and associations, helped on by rhymes, incantatory metrical effects, and puns that ring with a wild echolalia...
After the President explained U.S. actions in Viet Nam (see THE NATION), visitors got their first look at the concrete and glass cruciform structure designed by I. M. Pei to be the first of three buildings in Syracuse University's Newhouse Communications Center-a $15 million gift from Sam. The new building will house the School of Journalism in superbly equipped surroundings. In two experimental underground classrooms, students will answer examination questions by pushing buttons and a computer instantly totes up their scores. Other rooms are set up like regular city rooms, complete with wire-service Teletype machines. Construction...