Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow, the older, tamer forests of the Berkshires and the Adirondacks suit McPhee better than the wild barren extremities of the 49th state, America's last frontier. McPhee is too much the Princetonian descendant of the painstaking Yankee silversmith. He crafts nice pieces for nice people to read in their nice New Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year...
...inhospitable vastness. After 20 years, the work was done. In 1889 the troopers mounted up and rode away from Fort Concho for the last time, while the regimental band played The Girl I Left Behind Me. Four years later, Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed his elegiac thesis that the frontier, the decisive molding influence of the American character, was gone...
...worst areas of the South Bronx, on 168th Street and Washington Avenue, another homesteading group, the People's Development Corporation, has rennovated five other tenements. Their remodeled buildings sport solar energy panels, greenhouses, storm windows and other energy saving equipment. At Hunts Points, the Bronx Frontier group runs a windmill on the East River to capture energy that turns the debris from vacant lots into raw construction materials. And the Catholic Church, led by Father Louis Gigante, has built 1,000 units of subsidized housing in the area's southeastern section. In the next three years, he plans to build...
...heads the Frontier Booking International (FBI), an agency specializing in New Wave performers. Miles created the International Record Syndicate (IRS), an umbrella organization of seven young, aggressive independent labels which are distributed by A&M while retaining complete artistic control over their releases...
Time and again, Hopper's work insists in its characteristically modest way that these green fields have gone, or, at least, are going; that having run out of external frontiers, Americans were faced by an impassable frontier within the self, so that the man of action had been replaced by the watcher, or voyeur, whose act of watching included the creative functions or "eye" of the artist. One is company, two is a crowd: such is the implied mot to. This, perhaps, is why one senses so in tense a bond between Hopper and his apparently aloof, disconnected human...