Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh...
...reality an end of dependence on family. The new graduate takes off for the big city, looking for a job and an apartment of his or her own. And he begins determinedly to swing. In the ultimate, this means buying the highest of hi-fis, the deepest of modern sofas, the heppest of pop artifacts, the most seductive of lounging pajamas or sports jackets. If sooner or later a prospective mate moves in, the big city does not mind. Few landlords would dream of objecting, and sophisticated married friends ask coupled singles for a weekend with no thought of separate...
...Modern sculpture itself made it in evitable. Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze. To be sure, bronze and marble for centuries have gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...
Their 1st century marble Bacchus was a natural for their modern atrium, but their love of the moment happens to be minimal sculpture. Scull first has wood models made, then shifts them from place to place. Sometimes he discovers delightful juxtapositions: Robert Morris' painted-aluminum square handsomely frames Mark di Suvero's tangled wood; after dark, Ben Berns' blue neon looks like a strange and lovely firefly among the hemlocks...
...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...