Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Bellinger, 29, makes dumb-looking sculptures that consist of a piece of rope slung from floor to ceiling. Keith Sonnier, 27, puddles flimsily sensuous Dacron on the floor. David Lee, 31, hangs clear sheets of plastic from the rafters. Richard Tuttle, 27, tacks up wrinkled octagons of canvas...
...label, a few adventurous dealers have been setting the new work out in galleries. The year has seen esthetic wonders running from algae to soft obelisks, and constructions incorporating words, photographs, chicken wire, sulphur and thin air. In September Manhattan was treated to the spectacle of James Lee Byars, 36, parading more than 300 votaries along East 66th Street in a communal robe. There were the "earthworks" artists at the Dwan Gallery, who had assembled works replete with peat and petroleum jelly. Meanwhile, their leader, Walter de Maria, 33, was filling three rooms of a Munich gallery with eight tons...
...dumped 200 Ibs. of sulphur on the gallery floor. Was it meant to be salable? Perhaps not, for a surprisingly large number of the process artists feel that the business of buying and selling art has been overemphasized. "My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors," snorts David Lee. "It's art for living, for turning on with." Rather than produce art that would sell, he supports himself by carpentry and writing. "I feel ridiculous, selling my work at a gallery," says Bellinger, who would prefer to make his work in quantity and sell it cheaply...
...this indefinable "body sensation" that haunts all of the new art, in one way or another, and brings the best of it stingingly alive. Even David Lee's clear sheets require a body moving between them to make the composition complete. "What I am doing," reflects Lygia Clark, "could almost be called art for the blind, but for the rest of us it is important too. We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds...
...Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view of Asian economics big fish eat little fish, and little fish eat smaller ones-but none are about to get his 225-sq.-mi. island nation. The reason is that, small as it may be, Singapore is more than strong enough to keep its economic independence...