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...past 40 years, Giacometti has ground away at man in his gritty, plaster-spattered Montparnasse studio in Paris. His sooty potbellied stove still rusts away in a corner amid a welter of palette knives; the unpainted walls are covered with scribbly sketches, around which some ornate frames hang randomly like lustrous afterthoughts. This is his laboratory for capturing reality. To it come such models as his brother Diego, who makes furniture in bronze, and his wife Annette, to pose for motionless hours. For each session, they must return to the exact posture that Giacometti wishes; he ensures this by placing...
...Revolution. At the penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times...
...ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks of a fellow artist. The Merzbau was also the prototype of "environments," present-day art works that envelop viewers like architecture-fundamentally collage turned inside out. Schwitters had moved from Dada's mockery to an acceptance of commonplace ephemera as O.K. material for art. Shout...
...moss, seems always to be peeking around the corners of her long black hair with nearly expressionless stealth, and only the keenest humor will send a smile rippling across her lips. It is the same face that appears again and again in her art, penciled on wood, cast in plaster, even peeping from a pasted-on photograph. "Some people have accused me of narcissism," she says, "but it is really easier to use myself as a model...
...Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw, and showed off the durable presence that makes him the most valuable exhibit of all. "If they had a red carpet up there for me like I thought," he winked, "the accident wouldna' happened...