Word: looks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less popular artists in Manhattan. Sturtevant's thing is line-for-line copies of virtually every top pop painter and sculptor. She has "done" Segal, Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Stella, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol with such loving cunning and accomplished accuracy that she makes them all look slightly ridiculous. If the ideal of pop is to reproduce banality literally, then Sturtevant has carried the ideal to its logical but infuriating conclusion-by reproducing the literal reproduction literally. "Oldenburg is ready to kill me," she admits. "It all makes him dive up a wall...
...process of celebrating "process," Sturtevant has also rendered herself somewhat ridiculous (she once slathered herself with shaving foam to pose for her version of Man Ray's photograph of Marcel Duchamp). This disturbs her not one whit. "I have no place at all," she says, with a faraway look in her eye, "except in relation to the total structure. What interests me is not communicating but creating change. Some people feel that a great change in esthetics in general is happening, though few understand exactly why. Mainly, there is a great deal of anxiety...
...public. Privately, they may kid their colleagues mercilessly. Artists, on the other hand, like actors, regard their fellows as prime targets for public parody. Lately, works of art poking gentle, and occasionally savage fun at other works of art seem to be multiplying like guppies. Though these works sometimes look like literal copies, they are usually sly, even malicious comments about the nature of art and its relation to reality. John Clem Clarke's stylized version of Frans Hals' "St. Adrian Militia Company," which hangs in a downtown Manhattan bar (above, with artist seated second from the left...
...appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall, handsome, well-proportioned young man, and many women like to look at handsome...
...Here he was, trying to get dressed for dinner, and he had no tie." Breslin was only 20 ft. away from Bobby Kennedy when the Senator was shot in Los Angeles. "Robert Kennedy is on his back," Breslin wrote. "His lips are open in pain. He has a sad look on his face. You see, he knows so much about this thing." Bobby and Breslin were friends, and Jimmy confides that "if that kid had lived, they couldn't have gotten me out of newspapers with a bulldozer. But with him gone, who needs...