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...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
Manifesto Destiny. Although it seems to have blossomed suddenly, the kinetic kraze has been a long time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements...
...work is surreal, finicky, and owes much to Dada. Baruchello has even done a portrait, titled Chemical Inducers in Marcel Duchamp's Brain, of that venerable, revamped Dadaist. Painted on three layers of Plexiglas, the portrait is a phrenologist's delight, with arrows depicting the flow of nervous energy and vague images suggesting visual ideas. Like the autobiographical trinkets strewn through Baruchello's work, it is the facsimile of an artist's mind...
...points out, long ago began incorporating materials from the real world (labels, newspaper clippings, playing cards) into their stuck-together collages. The surrealists later cottoned to the idea, as Max Ernst put it, of "coupling two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them." Dadaist Marcel Duchamp hung up mass-produced snow shovels and labeled them ready-made...
...letters were sent to Dean Watson and Master Bullit urging Harvard to halt production of the 19th century play by French dadaist Alfred Jarry. The letters were signed "a Harvard employees" and "a Cambridge resident...