Word: daydreams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Detroit daydream come true was made possible last week by the opening of a new superhighway that bypasses "Gasoline Alley," an elevenmile stretch of road south of Hartford with 18 stop lights and heavy local traffic, lined on both sides with aluminum diners, neon-lit drive-ins and stucco motels...
...found between two remote little towns named Antalya and Anamur on the south coast of Turkey. Framed against the Taurus mountain range that rises sharply to the north, and edged with orange, lemon, olive and fig trees, the 100-mile "Turkish Riviera" is every adventurer's midsummer daydream come true. It offers every variety of beach, from powdered sand to pebble to worn rocks. Here and there, cool mountain streams spill over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend an air of timeless tranquillity. Marble columns stand cool and sublime amongst pine trees, crusaders...
Besides, Tolstoy did not suffer from the pathetic phallacy according to which all existence revolves around sex. Many authors today treat sex the way Marxists treat economics; they see it at the root of everything, and daydream about sexual triumph the way revolutionary writers daydream about power. Thus in the tirelessly explicit writing of Norman Mailer, sex is a personal boast, a mystique and an ideology-and, in all three capacities, solemn and unconvincing...
...impastoed, Grooms's paintings are nostalgic vignettes of ordinary life. In a show of 36 works, which opened in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy gallery last week, he proves an ability to make folk theater in paint. In his Slab City Rendezvous, for instance, people misproportioned in daydream dimensions pose in the front yard of a Maine summer home, while an artist and his easel stand on the rooftop, projecting above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing...
...Motion. Calder made his restless, looping pencil line draw in wire, caricaturing his audience, sometimes with barbs. The toast of Paris, Josephine Baker, was his first metal portrait in 1926; her belly button turned into a shimmying, shaking brass spiral. All that was delightful, a gadgeteer's daydream, until one day Calder visited Mondrian's studio...