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...Yehuda Hirsh...
...images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation, but they have an undeniable forensic power...
Klein professes amazement over the stir. Says the designer, who plans to shoot another series of Shields ads soon: "I never thought that people would be offended. I'm shocked that there has been such controversy." But it is no secret on Seventh Avenue that Marketing Whiz Warren Hirsh resigned as president of Puritan Fashions, which peddles the Klein jeans under license, after a battle with Klein about the propriety of the Shields ads. When Klein started advertising his Puritan jeans only this summer, Hirsh had already made Gloria Vanderbilt denims famous for another company under such slogans...
...Hirsh believes that sexy ads may distract consumers: they "don't hear how good the product is," he says. J. Walter Thompson's U.S. chairman Burt Manning has another concern. His worry: "Numbers of viewers are going to conclude that 'only a flaky segment of society would respond to that kind of advertising. I don't want to be like those people, so I'm not going to wear that kind of brand.' " The products will be noticed, he says, but the ads will be turning consumers...
...university fired Hirsh and Schiffer for the second time on February 6, Schiffer said, adding that she is contemplating contempt-of-court action against...