Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life?newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting. Cut them out, put them in. The tonal values of some of his finest collages have been ruined by age. The newsprint, once gray on white, is now cigar-brown. But in better preserved ones, like Violin and Sheet Music, 1912, the original effect remains: a magnificently Apollonian interplay of blue, gray, white and black on its ocher ground, stable and forceful at the same time...
...aborted American mission to rescue the hostages in Iran did more than precipitate an international uproar and an air of crisis in Washington. It may have also kept six "Doonesbury" strips from ever seeing the light of newsprint...