Word: objet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, Dustin comes on all of a heap. His stance is simian, his face an objet trouvé. The hair is from a thatched roof in Cambodia, the nose and chin from a 1948 Chevrolet, the hooded eyes from a stuffed hawk. Even the voice seems assembled, an oboe with postnasal drip. It all appears a shambles?until it begins to work, stunning audiences with articulate force. His current comedy, Jimmy Shine, is a mere vaudeville of the absurd. But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience. He growls like Durante...
...sympathetic to Mr. Yelton's point of view, but I suggest that this is exactly the approach that Mr. Andrews will take. He is strongly opposed to the concept of architecture as objet d'art. He believes very intensely that design is only a means of embodying the total function of a building. He is immensely sensitive to the needs of the users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous...
Twenty-nine people wanted fur. But they didn't get it, because 46 people wanted rubber. And they didn't get it, because 49 people wanted aluminum. What everybody got was Hybrid, the consensus objet d'art of 1965. It is the result of what two young British artists, Gerald Laing, 30, and Peter Phillips, 26, called an "art-consumer research project...
...year ago to interview people from Los Angeles to London, asking what they wished Hybrid, the logical extreme of making art pop, to be. Categories included color, material, pattern, finish, size, as well as choices between closed or open form, two or three dimensions, a figurative or nonfigurative objet. The interviews with 137 artists, critics and collectors were then tabulated by computer. Results...
...technician fiddling with the First Lady's person." From her first whispery words, Jackie put on an expert performance in telling how she and her advisory committee have redecorated the White House. Without notes or prompting, she showed a connoisseur's knowledge of every antique and objet d'art that came into view (only one scene had to be refilmed; Jackie momentarily confused a Dolley Madison sofa with one of Nelly Custis'). She easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge of intimate White House history. The Green Room...