Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBERT INDIANA-Stable, 33 East 74th. Like the young visionary Hart Crane, who saw the Brooklyn Bridge from his window 40 years ago and hymned it in verse, Robert Indiana, painter of the American Dream, sees the bridge every day from his studio. In homage to the poet he committed it to canvas in a four-faceted diamond filled with silver, singing girders. It is part of Indiana's American-dream theme, as are his Mother and Father Diptych showing his parents stepping into a Model T and his word columns-salvaged sailing-ship masts covered with typical Indiana...
...arena, he harangued a smaller-than-expected crowd of 1,200. "If you're tired of the trend in this nation today," he said, "you have an opportunity to do something about it on May 19. We shocked the liberals to their eyeteeth in Wisconsin and Indiana, and we've got a chance to make their eyeteeth drop out here." The crowd cheered...
...some painters these days, the highest ideal is impersonality. They do not sign their works. They are not interested in painting out their mental turmoil on canvas, as were abstract expressionists. One such artist in search of anonymity is Robert Indiana, 36, who adopted that surname from his native state rather than endure the pangs of his actual identity...
Wallace campaigned in Indiana as "a man with a mission," spent about $50,000 on his effort against what he calls the "civil wrongs" bill. In conservative Indiana, he hoped to surpass the 34% of the Democratic vote he received in last month's Wisconsin primary. His 29.8% fell short of the mark, but Wallace took it as a triumph anyway. "This vote," he cried, "is shaking the eyeteeth of the liberals in both parties...
...that, civil rights forces did have cause for concern, for the Indiana voting showed the so-called white "backlash" still in evidence. Wallace actually carried populous Lake County, which includes industrial, heavily unionized Gary, Hammond and East Chicago. He also won in adjacent Porter County, a recently developed steel center that has been afflicted with racial conflict. If the backlash in such areas continues through November, it could cause serious trouble for the national Democratic ticket...