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...face starting all over again." The only immediate remedy for orchard growers was an offer from a company in Los Angeles to provide water at nearly $90 per acre-foot (the usual price: $5). "I couldn't afford to pay that," said Walnut Grower Charles Jasper. "It would come to $27,000 a year, I figure...
...Motherwell?was recognized across the Atlantic, and the aesthetic colonization of Europe by New York art began in earnest. In this momentous shift of taste, energy and locus, a younger generation of American artists would be the legatees. Its symbolic twins, its Castor and Pollux, were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns...
Still experimenting, Wedgwood is now concentrating mainly on a new product that he calls Jasper Ware because it is almost as shiny as jasper. Wedgwood was the first to discover that clay containing barium compounds can be more highly polished than any other and can be beautifully colored by various metallic oxides. To exploit the classical revival started by the recent excavations in Pompeii, Wedgwood is embossing his Jasper Ware with bas-relief of Greek and Roman figures...
John Cage, painters Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and others pay special homage to Cunningham, attempting to understand him as a teacher, performer, collaborator and creator. They know in their bones--though Klosty is the only one so bold as to say so--that the gathering of artists, musicians and dancers around Cunningham in the fifties was as significant a group in the history of the arts as was Bloomsbury or Gertrude Stein's "charmed circle." After the second World War, the arts in New York took on a vitality and strength which Cunningham and his followers helped to create...
...image is. No doubt Dove meant the folding inch-rule that runs round the portrait like a frame to be a gruff joke-how do you measure the fictional space of a painting? But that joke, 35 years later, would become one of the "issues" of American art and Jasper Johns would obsessively return to it. Of course, Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry is not necessarily a better assemblage because it predicts some part of Johns any more than the strong totemic architecture of Dove's last and most expansive color paintings, like That Red One (1944), is necessarily made...