Word: marck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geometry, the equalizing of old and new materials, the applied and the fine arts. These qualities appeal not so much to the often fickle eye but to the intellect. "He was the original artist in a white coat," says the Museum of Contemporary Art's Jan van der Marck, "one of the first to place art in a laboratory situation...
...Where are you going to put the stamps?" guffawed a passing postal clerk. "When do they pick it up?" gibed a construction stiff. Museum Director Jan van der Marck was undismayed. Christo's wrapping, he explains, underlines the fact that "a museum is already a wrapping of sorts. You wrap into a museum all the arts worth preserving and presenting...
...canvases of Jules Olitski and the newly fluid pictures of Larry Poons. "New art is disturbing to everybody," warns a big pop collector, Robert Scull, who is also a major patron of the newer art. "It takes a realignment of your computer to like it." Says Jan Van der Marck, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art: "They are doing just what the pop artists did; they are pushing the limits of the acceptable...
...Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started...
...breasts, eleven legs and eight pairs of lips; he adds for good measure six oranges, three cigarettes, two radios, two pop bottles, one toilet seat, one hero sandwich, one glass of milk, one Volkswagen and one lemon. Altogether, the lot amply illustrates that, as Director Jan van der Marck observes, "Wesselmann shows woman as the consumer, both consuming and being consumed...