Word: hoarfrosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun eight months ago, was due to be finished at the end of March. "I'll be here for the victory," said Foreman Vladimir Zudilov, 32, whose fur ear flaps were covered with hoarfrost. "And then we'll move on to start another BAM bridge...
...resale of paintings. It was Rauschenberg who, knowing the ponderousness with which foundations disgorge grants, set up and largely endowed Change, Inc.?a fund from which artists with urgent cash trouble could get small sustaining grants within a matter of days. He could afford to help: his recent Hoarfrost multiples sell for up to $4,000 each; the 1962 silk-screen Barge could well command $500,000 on the market today. "Bob has put more of his money and time back into the art world than any artist alive," says one of his acquaintances. "He needs to believe...
...hoarfrost glistens on your three-day growth of beard as you park your Honda in front of the Orpheum. Random leaves, pages from the Good Book of Earthly and Other-Earthly bounty, are strewn about you as you assume your place at the end of the autumnal queue. "Good day, fellow concert patron," you intone with pious conviction. "How many of these crisp, green bills need I fork over to gain entrance to this Mighty Fortress...
...peers into this soft, gauzy space as though looking through ice crystals diffused on a windowpane: hence the collective title Hoarfrost...
...ghost images, traces. The white paintings were made white to accept passing shadows. The De Kooning drawing was not erased to blank: a phantom of it stays on the paper. Rauschenberg's illustrations to Dante's Infer no (1960) were pale transfers from newsprint. But the Hoarfrost prints extend Rauschenberg's delight in faintness to a ravishing lyricism: because their constituent images are so familiar, clear-cut and even brassy, and yet presented with such rippling and indistinct sweetness, they become a visual equivalent of free-associative dreaming - creative inattention at play. Perhaps only a temperament...