Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lately, since CRIMSON reviewers have decided it is nicer to be loved than feared, the old enemy-encampment aura has disappeared from the place, and a certain familiar felicity in power exists between the paper and the world of drama...
Johns's followers even go so far as to see in them the transubstantiation of the familiar, a totem made from artistic taboo...
Johns chose subject matter that was purposely flat and familiar-U.S. flags, targets, maps, and the digits one to ten (see overleaf}. But to him, they are no more commonplace than the lemons of the still lifes of yesteryear. Transforming everyday objects into images of uncommon beauty is unquestionably the artist's task, and for Johns the act of metamorphosis is full of magic. He says: "I am concerned with a thing not being what it was, with its becoming something else, with any moment in which one identifies a thing precisely, and with the slipping away...
...markers are in five readily familiar shapes...
...Editor's Note: Here's a quick tour of New England ski sites, prepared by David C. Dionne, The Harbus's advertising manager and a native Vermonter familiar with the slopes of his region and how to get there...