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...Americans get the opportunity to have their eyes opened by such a hike. The painter's vision can nonetheless be shared, reasons a New York artist named Alan Gussow. Backed by a leading environmental group, Friends of the Earth, he has just produced a handsome coffee-table book entitled A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Saturday Review Press; $27.50). It juxtaposes 67 American landscapes, painted from the 16th century to the present, with a description of what moved each artist to select the scene. The result is astonishingly successful; no careful reader should...
...Gussow defines an artist's chosen landscape as "a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings." It has always been thus, even when the U.S. was a complete wilderness and artists were merely its sensitive surveyors. In 1585, for example, John White was sent to the New World to "bring back descriptions of beasts, birds, fishes, trees, townes, etc." His watercolor of Indians fishing in Virginia gives not only the basic facts but the artist's response as well-enchantment...
...front of the Smithsonian Institution's new Museum of History and Technology last week went an 8-ft.-high, stainless-steel piece of abstract sculpture designed by New York's José de Rivera, 62, and executed with the aid of fellow New York Abstractionist Roy Gussow, 48. In terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while the Hirschhorn...
...GUSSOW - Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. The streamlined slabs and slippery surfaces of modern abstracts in stainless steel, forged bronze and copper by a teacher at Pratt Institute who studied under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. Most are on loan. Through April...
...Gussow makes a distinction between an object and a subject as a theme for a painting. "An object," he says, "is something separate, like a Chinese urn, to be held up, inspected, admired, but nothing more. A subject implies something subservient, something that the artist can control but is also responsible for." Gussow's special responsibility is to show his favorite subject, nature, in action. He succeeds admirably. Though his design stays firm, his spontaneous brush strokes make his canvases seem fluid. The effect is just what Gussow is after: "The idea of something happening, the illusion of change...