Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is being hammered out in, of all places, the mountain city of Caracas, site of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Actually, the high and dry location makes a good deal of symbolic sense. The 5,000 delegates and official observers at the conference come from 149 nations-29 of them landlocked states without so much as a saltwater swimming hole...
...among the artist's most basic tools. Usually they are means to the ends of representation, statement or expression. Rarely are they so joyfully acknowledged and celebrated as ends in themselves as they are in the works of Josef and Anni Albers. The Albers and their students at Black Mountain College are the subject of an eclectic exhibition at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, an exhibition which draws on nearly forty years of artistic production to reveal the creative energy and inquisitive imagination of two of the finest masters of abstract design...
...color phenomenon--were students and then teachers at the now-legendary Weimar Bauhaus. There they joined a movement that had proclaimed in 1919, "There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman." In 1933, when the Albers were invited to teach at North Carolina's Black Mountain College, a progressive artistic community, they brought with them a faith in the artistic potential of the machine and a determination to erase the distinction between the fine and applied arts...
...Albers, who rarely use curved lines, circles or non-geometric forms, their students often choose to dramatize the formal qualities of rhythm and movement. The black and white studies of triangles and spirals and the word designs on newsprint of Ruth Asawa, the best of the Black Mountain students whose work is shown, have a jagged irregularity and a pulsating energy that contrasts with the pristine order and elegance of her teachers' works...
Michael B. Howard, 31. "We want to make waves," asserts Rocky Mountain News Managing Editor Howard. "What better advertising is there than that?" This spring the increasingly splashy News exposed as a phony Ph.D. the official running the state air pollution control program, caught the state revenue director in a conflict of interests and has waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers...