Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...megalomania crushes the small point it makes. On the other hand, Beuys is brilliant at using laconic, coarse, gritty, abandoned things to suggest a tragic sense of history. A case in point is his dreadful reliquary of Auschwitz, from the Stroher collection in Darmstadt: its few objects in a glass case-blocks of fat on a battered electric hot plate, moldering sausages, a mummified rat on a straw bed, a diagram of the camp, a drawing of a child-are perhaps the most poignant, and certainly the least exploitative, image in modern art of that catastrophe...
...house near London's Regent's Park, Victor Sawdon Pritchett seems more like a rural school master. There is a comfortable, unstudied eclecticism about him. His checkered trousers, striped shirt and plaid jacket have an odd camouflaging effect, especially when he stands against a large glass case containing a Victorian bouquet of stuffed pheasants, birds of paradise and a platypus. He offers no sharp opinions, no bulletins on the state of the arts...
...dimly lit fuschia blooms outside the window stand in stark contrast not only to the grays and blues of the living room, but to the gray-blue lives of the characters themselves. The light drifting in through the leaded glass produces a criss-crossed pattern of shadows across the set, creating the appropriate illusion of a cell...
...Boulanger, 92, Mademoiselle le Professeur to three generations of composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...symbol for what she disliked at the Quad. She and her husband turned down the Currier apartment offered for their visit. The house which opened that fall reflected "a combination of luxury and mess." She was "appalled at the surplus...the entertainment rooms stocked down to the last wine glass." How could students hold parties in such luxury and still spill yogurt on the dining room floor? Where were their manners...