Word: latticework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glint of halos, the figures in this youthful Madonna, despite their hierarchic gestures, are close kin to flesh and blood. Subtly but simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...
...small press alcoves on the south side of the courtroom were jammed. Reporters who could not find space lined the corridor beyond and scribbled notes as best they could. Court secretaries who normally stick to their typewriters peered through the brass latticework at the cause of all the hubbub: Dr. Sam Sheppard, 42. With the unwitting help of the press, Sheppard had finally managed to have his case heard by the Supreme Court...
...NICOLAS SCHÖFFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...
Before its notoriety as the site of tragic riots, the Watts area of Los Angeles was more mildly famous for an architectural oddity, a trio of 100-ft.-tall latticework spires called the Watts Towers. Inlaid with 75,000 sea shells and countless bits of crockery, the tow ers were the lifetime hobby of an immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists...
...billed as the "World's Largest Birthday Cake"-32 ft. high, 75 ft. across and 20 tons heavy, topped by 50 electric candles. But it wasn't really a cake at all; it was made of steel and latticework and 30,000 growing plants. And this outsize inedibility was quite fitting. For the 50th birthday it celebrated was that of the wonderfully unreal stage show called Miami Beach...