Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These cloth shells also have their distinct grace. Several figures of circus performers, riding on iron-wire wheels, refer to Giacometti's famous charioteer and, through that, back to common sources in Etruscan antiquity; the precarious poise of the acrobat's body is part of Abakanowicz's general imagery of human vulnerability and risk...
...most consistent image of the White House so far is the parade of celebrities being whisked in and out of the iron gates for private audiences with Administration officials. Barbra Streisand played her new CD for the President first, made calls from the study next to the Oval Office and dined with Janet Reno. Christopher Reeve and Billy Crystal got environmental briefings from two Cabinet Secretaries. A group of Hollywood celebs was invited for a Saturday-morning briefing on health care. The overnight guest list for the Lincoln Bedroom sometimes reads like the register at the Hotel...
...Forging a New Iron...
Smith remains the true primary heir of Picasso and Gonzalez -- and, to some extent, of Giacometti, whose space constructions like The Palace at 4 A.M. inspired the young American artist in the '30s to make a series of small iron precincts and even a miniature iron house, complete with iron paintings on the walls. Curator Gimenez's choice of his work is an exemplary condensation. Beginning with those initial Surrealist images, it picks up on the early sculptures that clearly indicate the bent of his talent, such as Amusement Park, 1938, a small work that both remembers Picasso's iron...
...organic and the mechanical in an unstoppable lyric eloquence. He imagined his work connected to the heroic tradition of American technology. "My aim," he wrote in 1952, "is the same as in locomotive building: to arrive at a given functional form in the most efficient manner." Sculpture's iron age, in such hands, was also a golden...