Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology emeritus, was one of the architects of this synthesis. His Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942) marked the climax of nearly three decades of work that spanned scientific disciplines and attacked the major problem left unsolved by Darwin, the origin of variation of physical features and traits among species. He and William B. Provine have outlined the development of this intellectual trend in a new book. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, published by the Harvard University Press...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard collected 56 ground balls to Boston College's 40, so it wasn't like the Crimson wasn't working hard...Davis separated his shoulder in the first half but continued to play and scored both his goals after the injury...Bobby Burr and Bruce Ernst scored the other Harvard goals...The Crimson's next game is on Sunday against Penn in New Canaan, Conn...
DIED. Julien Levy, 75, influential art dealer and writer whose gallery was a center during the 1930s and '40s for surrealism and neoromanticism, presenting the first New York exhibitions of such artists as Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray and Joseph Cornell; in New Haven, Conn...
...miniature stage, containing strange images like a diorama of another world, was one of the favorite devices of surrealism, used incessantly from Max Ernst in the '20s to Joseph Cornell in the '40s. Nevelson gave it a unique density and gravity. She took the box's power as theater and subjected it to a constructivist rigor of formal layout. The past life of the wood pieces was still apparent: the nicks and flaws, the signs of use and disuse, all preserved and yet held at an emotional distance by the pall of black. But her instinct...
...works in the ICA show reveal the formal similarities of much Dadaist graphic art to contemporary examples. The Dadaists experimented with the nature of graphic communication, mixing typefaces and altering size and scale. Ernst's poster "Dada Zeigt!" (Dada Wins!) uses assorted lettering with unrelated symbols--a rope, a bed, a cow, a housewife. The asymmetric anarchic quality of such compositions also characterizes contemporary New Wave graphics. This aesthetic, which has sprung up alongside of punk music and fashion, is characterized by the juxtaposition of disparate forms, symbols and lettering in designs that often are consciously crooked, random and askew...