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Joseph K. Van Denburg...
This not-so-hidden menace in Ol denburg's work is truly obsessive, and it supplies one of the reasons why his art cannot be seen clearly in the Pop art atmosphere of flaccid, easygoing ac ceptance of the commercial image...
Haunted. At such moments, Ol denburg is death's buffoon. The wind shield wiper will never be built. But the mere fact that it has been designed reminds one of Dean Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which the satirist suggested the fattening and roasting of infants as a solution to the Irish famines. Indeed, allowing for the limits within which an artist can resemble a writer, there is something very Swiftian about the whole cast of Oldenburg's imagination - haunted by death, fascinated by the elaboration of fantasy worlds in which the uses of objects...
Last week, with nearly every loophole closed, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht led a gaggle of East German commissars and Soviet officers to the Bran denburg Gate. Atop the gate, once the principal gateway between East and West Berlin and now the capstone of Ulbricht's wall, a new flagpole had been hastily erected. As the East German hammer and compass flag was run up to celebrate his macabre triumph, Ulbricht watched happily...
JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG Fort Lauderdale...