Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...
Magnifying Fact. Al Leslie, 40, is, if possible, even more concerned with making his paintings fill the viewer's whole field of vision. The 9-ft. by 6-ft. portraits, mostly of naked women, which he executes in steely tones, have an unnerving frontality arising from the fact that Leslie's brush goes beyond what the naked eye would see. He cunningly divides his figures into four sections, then paints head, chest, abdomen and thighs separately, each viewed from eye level. He elevates his models on platforms, or for self-portraits, uses a male model posing...
...Nigeria, Curle points out, theree quarters of a million students left school last year to fill 140,000 new jobs. The rest are dry tinder, milling in the country's bloated cities. As Curle sees it, the summer sparks in U.S. ghettoes and what he refers to as the "incredible volume of violence in the underdeveloped world" are only hints of the cataclysm brewing in slums and vilages around the globe...
Champion succeeds Edward J. Logue who opposed Kevin White in the mayoral primary. Champion's salary will be $35,000 a year, $5000 more than that of Logue who will soon fill a professorship at Boston University...
...campus politician was asked by Graham, who had just been appointed to fill a vacancy as U.S. Senator from North Carolina, to be his legislative assistant after his graduation in 1949 at the age of 20. Lowenstein remembers coming into contact with another freshman Democratic Senator during the fall of 1949, Lyndon Baines Johnson...