Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little boxes by Joseph Cornell. He places Victorian mantelpiece objects., medicine bottles, and birds behind glass or a wire, closing them into a three dimensional space, like a tomb. These boxes seem to be the only attempt to frame three dimensional space in the context of the flat vision of the new American painting, but even this sort of ? D picture is lifeless compared to the original space of the abstract works...
...structuring color into definite geometric shapes, Minimal Artists give color the permanent stability it lacks in the impressionistic canvases of Olitsky. The smooth unmodulated hue of their minimal works pulls the canvas to an unprecedented flatness. The extensive steady tones glare outwards without suggesting any space for the eye to travel. Though it is difficult to conceive of a flatter picture, it is almost impossible not to see a special relationship between any two colors placed on the same surface. In their simplicity, the chevrons of Noland, thrust across the canvas, are impossible to forget. As the painted surfaces become...
...have since then discussed the matter with Dr. Kliman, who is something like "Director of Medical Programs" at the Mass. Red Cross. He explained that a good deal of discretion is left to the individual nurse, that there is no flat policy of refusing everyone who claims to have smoked, but that the nurse is instructed to be on the lookout for habitual drug types and, particularly, for anyone who might have used heroin, which, he pointed out, may be associated with hepatitis, which can be transmitted in the blood. He said that marijuana, like nicotine, did leave a residue...
...hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli pilots who have flown it find that the Sukhoi reaches a Mach 1.6 speed, climbs at the rate of 23,500 ft. per min. and can carry 3.5 tons of ordnance...
WHILE I was lying there flat on my back there was plenty to keep me busy. I noticed they put white paper cloths over the legs of all the girls, presumably to keep the men of Harvard from looking up their skirts. My mistake was to look at the tubing apparatus. What a nice dark red tube they have going from my arm. I thought. Then I realized that was my blood. As I thought of that red stream flowing out of me. I felt just the slightest bit uneasy. But then I concentrated on the song WRKO was playing...