Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East discovery was made last Christmas Eve by a French-led team of archaeologists. While dig ging at the ancient imperial Persian city of Susa in western Iran, they suddenly struck a large stone object. As they excitedly removed more earth, fingers, then a hand and finally most of a human figure emerged. Even though the head and shoulders were missing, hieroglyphics on the carved belt of the more than seven-foot-high, four-ton statue indicated that it was a figure of Darius the Great, one of the most powerful rulers of the ancient world...
...much a functionalist. "If my technique, imagination and vision are any good," he once observed, "I ought to be able to put the best values of my noncommercial and experimental photography into a pair of shoes, a tube of toothpaste, a jar of face cream, a mattress or any object I want to light up and make humanly interesting in an advertising photograph...
...permeated all Matisse's work, even a still life like The Blue Cloth, 1909; the whorls and cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject" for other art, just like...
...Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object is to investigate that question and to suggest some of the reasons why I would answer it affirmatively...
...Donald Collier of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, are supporting an entire underworld. Collectors usually deal only with the last-and most gentlemanly-middlemen. In an atmosphere of genteel negotiation, it is all too easy for acquisitive collectors to concentrate on the beauty of the object and forget about how it was obtained. This is natural, since the death of the stolen antiquities trade might mean the end of grand-scale collecting...