Word: maze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost in a Maze. Now that his gleaming, chrome-plated figures stand on their own two feet in the U.S.'s top contemporary museums and private collections (the Museum of Modern Art put kaleidoscopes of Trova's falling men on sale for $3.95 each, sold 8,000 in the past year), Trova is less concerned with the figures than with the sculptural environments in which he places them (see color). "You might say I am a student of Aristotle," explained the mustachioed Missourian in his suburban St. Louis studio last week. "Man has to deal with things around...
...most visitors, jostling their way through the huge crowds in Paris' Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, it was more like threading a path through a maze presided over by the commanding, and at times terrifying, 20th century Minotaur. To guide viewers, Paris newspapers were running floor plans, and a TV program highlighted the "100 hinges," or turning points, in Picasso's career. Critics could have doubled that number; yet the overwhelming impression was that, for all of Picasso's protean changes, what is essentially Picasso is now well known...
...answer is that if the Minotaur cannot fully comprehend the maze, neither can the viewer, who remains trapped in the paintings' distortion and violence. Thus Picasso's work continues to evoke both anger and adulation from critics and the public alike. But it is the fact that the world still tries to comprehend, despite a sense of outrage and shock, that is the final gauge of Picasso's genius...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...