Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical experiments of the Russian constructivists, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Puni; from Alexander Archipenko's wall reliefs to Julio Gonzalez's iron constructions and Alexander Calder's fluttering mobiles. Artists as unlike as Naum Gabo and David Smith were affected by it. No sculptor interested in either ideal formal systems or new materials was immune to its promises, and its influence persists to this day. Sculpture had been solid since paleolithic man made his fertility dolls, indeed since God made Adam out of clay; it now became a matter of intersecting planes, of wires springing through space...
...could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian art by Stalin. On the other hand, the work of Iwan Puni and Vladimir Tallin was virtually dialectical materialism transferred into art-"real materials," as Tatlin put it, possibly drawing on his own experience as a marine carpenter, "in real space...
...will have the greatness to bend history itself, but it is from numberless, diverse acts of courage that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands for an ideal...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression...
Granted the dizzying diversity of looks in the gallery of past Chief Executives, how is anyone to know what an ideal President should look like? The odd truth is that Americans do know. But how? What picture of a President resides in the popular imagination? What, in short, is the operating archetype...
...that the deposed Shah and other members of the Pahlavi family would soon be tried by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for treason, corruption and illegal transfer of funds abroad. The possible trial site: a sports hall in the Iranian capital that, with a capacity of 12,000, would be ideal for a classic show of revolutionary justice...