Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea behind the wreckage? Very simply that destruction can be beautiful. The thesis, as propounded in a provocative exhibit currently at Manhattan's Finch College Museum of Art, unaccountably fails to note the Dadaists, who introduced purposeful mangling into art half a century ago. "There is a great negative work of destruction to be accomplished," ran the 1918 Zurich manifesto. "We must sweep and clean." But the Finch exhibition compensates by showing how large a role destruction has come to play in the work of contemporary artists...
Destruction artists try to draw their esthetic justification on an odd mixture -the theories on aggression propounded by Austrian Naturalist Konrad Lorenz, Aristotle's idea of dramatic catharsis, and pop-psych. "We're all very hostile," says Ortiz. "The guy who beats his kid, the wife who has affairs. But art becomes a place where one can deal with the most chaotic problems without threatening one's emotional and physical well-being." Whatever the merits of destruction art, Ortiz's grasp of psychology is clearly sketchy, at least by Freudian lights. The master taught that both...
...customers could not believe that she knew enough about automobiles to do her job. "I would tell them I was the adjuster and they'd ask again for the real adjuster. They just couldn't believe it." Many men, and most women, also do not like the idea of reporting to a female boss. Says John Hancock's Joan Keenan: "It's difficult for a man to accept the idea of reporting to a woman at work. He does that at home, and that's enough...
...pupae he used had been refrigerated for some time to prevent them from developing into moths at the usual time. Months later, as a safeguard, he repeated his surgery on twenty young, healthy moths. They were able to produce the liquid. At that point Kafatos still had no idea where the active element was synthesized...
Kafatos' first step in testing the reality of informosomes was to get an idea of the composition of his messenger-carrying particles in silk worms. Ribosomes are about 50 per cent protein and informosomes, which may be similar to ribosomes, have been postulated by the Russians to contain a higher amount of protein. Chemical analysis of the particles suspected to be informosomes was impossible because Kafatos was dealing with such minute amounts of particles. Finally he turned to a method for testing a particle's density devised ten years ago by Harvard's Matthew Meselson, professor of Biology. Particles...