Word: diana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Philadelphia Museum of Art has currently installed "American Sculpture of the Sixties," with George Rickey's 37-ft.-high red blades soaring and Alexander Calder's white-petaled Ghost wafting under the 85-ft.-high ceiling of the Great Stair Hall before Saint-Gauden's bronze Diana (see color opposite). The new art is also demanding a permanent place there. This month, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center has installed its first permanent luminal-art gallery for light sculptures. And, because of its size, sculpture is now shouldering its way out of the museums and claiming space...
...Hunt for Diana...
...your item on "Diana" [Sept. 1], you state that the model was Nellie Fitzpatrick. I grew up believing that my mother's cousin, Annette Wildey, posed for this statue. We were told that no one outside our family knew who the model was. It came as a shock to read the name you gave. It is possible that she used her mother's maiden name (which I've never known) in order to spare the family "disgrace." Annette Wildey is no longer living, but I would like to perpetuate her memory by attaching her real name...
...such Negro originators of the style as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Soon the Negro "soul sound" surged into the white mass market. The old-line blues merchants have enjoyed a revival, and a younger, slicker breed of rhythm-and-blues singers-notably Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and the Supremes-have taken up commanding positions on the sales charts. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins, the white kids didn't know anything about the music," says Veteran Blues Shouter Waters, 52. "Now they've learned it was in their backyard all the time...
...Henry had foreseen it all. "Ye must know, Miss Diana," admonished Miss Liberty, "that 'tis with statues the same as with people-'tis not their makers nor the purpose for which they were created that influences their operations. It's the associations with which they became associated...