Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calder's main contribution to the language of modernism, of course, is the mobile. The first to make sculpture move, Calder liked "the idea of an object floating-not supported. The use of a very long thread seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth." The movement, created by touch or air, may be slow or fast, ponderously deliberate or fluttery as an aspen, but it always has the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself...
...question is further complicated by the role of the club's trustees, many of whom vehemently object to admitting women...
...group formulated course prerequisites in terms of background in feminist literature, it would be hard to object to an all-women seminar if only the women had that background. But it didn't. The prerequisite, pure and simple, was the personal experience of being female, a move that denied admission to a great majority of Harvard's population...
Reproduction, when it comes to art, is somehow considered uncreative by the Western world. If American galleries exhibit that third remove from reality which a copy of a painting of an object represents, it's only because they can't get "the real thing"--by which they mean the painting, not the object. And the reproductions will almost always be photographs; we have assumed that the camera gets closer to what it renders, somehow, than the brush does. Artistes, not artists, copy; second rate art students who don't dare make, imitate...
...film's sequences without pushing the point, but the message comes across nonetheless: in the period after marital hypocrisy had been declared taboo but before women began to really assert their rights, a housewife who had surrendered her identity to her husband faced a cruel void when the object of her devotion packed his bags...