Word: nibs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist finds his scale?the size of gesture proper to the image and medium he uses. "The scale of the drawing," Steinberg points out, "is given to you by the instrument you use," and pen drawings, being governed by the radius of the hand, cannot be very large. "The nib has an elasticity meant for writing, and that is why I have always used pen and ink: it is a form of writing. But unlike writing, drawing makes up its own syntax as it goes along. The line can't be reasoned in the mind. It can only be reasoned...
...nature of space exploration is necessarily profoundly different from that of Lindbergh's solitary flight. It costs billions of dollars, as against the $15,000 that Lindbergh spent. Astronauts, however highly trained, are nonetheless essentially cargo as they are flung out of gravity on a rocket's nib. The astronaut, says Sir George Greenfield, a literary agent who has specialized in accounts of explorations, "is more like a bus driver than an adventurer." The Viking spacecraft investigating Mars are made of thinking metal. The only humans aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft are the little sketches...
...Dinky car, a moth, a scrap of tapestry, a bow tie, some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears...
...even a small show like this demonstrates that Kubin was much more: he was one of the masters of fantasy, a Callot with a richer and, so to speak, post-Freudian imagination. The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host...