Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baked Images. Little Big Painting is a gibe at the high seriousness that surrounded the cult of the brush stroke by the abstract expressionists. "The original brush stroke was a romantic outpouring," explains Lichtenstein. "Here I'm making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...
Dialogue. A great deal of this knowledge is connected with his sense of family history. A gibe heard when he published Life Studies was not entirely unjust: "He writes as if Christ was crucified on the Lowell family tree...
...undernourished pride is evident from the way Canadians joke about themselves. "We're an enormous Switzerland without the numbered accounts." "A Canadian is a man who hasn't yet had an offer from the U.S." Out of the trapping country of the Far North comes the gibe that "the symbol of Canada is the beaver, that industrious rodent whose destiny it is to furnish hats to warm better brains than his own." And a familiar aphorism holds: "We've had access to American know-how, British political wisdom and French culture. We've ended up with...
...find fault with his country and with his Government every two years." He declared that Nixon "doesn't serve his country well" by broadcasting such criticism "in the hope that he can pick up a precinct or two or a ward or two." In the most caustic gibe of all, he said of Nixon: "He never did really recognize and realize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government. You remember what President Eisenhower said: that if you would give him a week or so, he'd figure out what Nixon was doing...
Daniel: It's a gibe at the style of newspaper articles . . . You keep forgetting that the starting point for all this is an imaginary situation, not something that actually happened. [Laughter in courtroom...