Word: meta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Total confusion was what Düsseldorf found in Tinguely's show of 17 "Meta-Mechanisms" in the Galerie Schmela. The Meta-Mechanisms were constructions of stovepipe-black sheet metal from which sharp, whitewashed metal fragments on wire stems sprouted like weird abstract flowers. Driven by hidden electric motors, they jiggled, skittered and bounced. Some spun like mad pinwheels, others rotated gravely like segments of an ear trying vainly to reassemble itself. Most were accompanied by sound effects as hidden camshafts thumped cowbells or old teakettles. The opening was notable for three eulogies read simultaneously by three admirers...
...great barriers of prejudice. Let's not elaborate upon the Negroes, who are strictly excluded from the lives of whites, killed in the south and shunned in the North, and who, practicably speaking, have never vote nor representative in government . . . . This segregation is of a political, psychoanalytical, and meta-physical nature. In a land which is so proud of what it calls "social mobility" which becomes more and more mythical as things become stabilized an according to unwritten law which ten to assert once and for all the supremacy of Nordics, of whites over blacks, of Protestants over...
...Meta-Mold Aluminum Co. of Cedarburg, Wis. is a corporation with an artistic soul. Its board chairman, Otto Spaeth, 57, is not only a shrewd and successful businessman but also a noted art patron and collector. In 1952, when Meta-Mold decided to build a new administration building, Sculptor Alexander Calder was called in to help design the lobby for a mobile that Calder named the "Otto-mobile" after Board Chairman Spaeth. Last summer Meta-Mold tried another experiment. It put on a show called "Art for Everyone-a purchase exhibition," in which 50 rented paintings and sculptures were offered...
...year-old electrical worker who bought a dramatic canvas called Death of Agamemnon, by Kenneth Evett, for $450 ($85 down, $20 monthly). Fearing that he would be kidded by his fellow workers for"spending so much on art when I could buy a car or something," he asked Meta-Mold to keep his identity secret, hold on to the painting until he could find a place to hang...
...META FULLER STONE St. Petersburg...