Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell. Since the earth acts like a solid object, it can be made to vibrate all over if it is hit hard enough. This behavior was predicted more than 80 years ago, but it was first detected with certainty after the Chile quake, when new instruments were ready and watching for it. The whole earth rang like a great, silent bell for two weeks. Its fundamental note had a period of about 54 minutes, which is more than 20 octaves below middle C, vastly too low for human ears to hear...
...spectrum than any such lines ever photographed before. Since red shift is caused by motion, 3C-147, Schmidt decided, must be speeding away from the earth at 76,000 miles per second, almost half the speed of light. He had taken a picture of the fastest object known...
...says Thiebaud, "certainly relates to advertising art-cropping, directness, noninvolvement with the product. Abstract expressionism said you had to be involved, to search for individual consciousness and sensibility. The new realists, or Pop artists, say it's possible to be cool, not have a personal feeling for the object. The new artist is saying maybe you can do your art with ease, without any involvement...
...earned him a burning for wizardry during the Inquisition. His pale zombies "present the mystery of a human being," he says. Like the remains of Pompeians preserved in volcanic ash, they dispute the border line between art and life. Often Segal's mummies occupy an environment with real objects-a car door, a Coke machine, or a false house front. For a future sculpture, he recently bought a genuine phone booth and took it to his studio, which is on a New Jersey chicken farm that he went bankrupt running. Authentic environments with plaster people raise "questions about...
Bore & Dig. "The object is definitely the most important thing to me," says Jamie. "In portraits I just wish I could drop myself out of it completely. It would be fantastic if you could just get a second person down on canvas without yourself in it," More, generally, he wants "to be involved in a little world, bore into it, dig into it and the hell with everything else...