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...this is our thing." Even the reality of violence in the ghetto is being dramatized; last month Washington's Gallery of Modern Art put on view 66 pieces of sculpture assembled by Los Angeles Artists Noah Purifoy and Judson Powell from three tons of charred wood, stained plaster, bent wire, broken dolls and burnt-out machinery culled from the wreckage of the 1965 Watts riots...
...days that followed, panel programs were thronged with psychiatrists who discussed violence and victims who discussed bullet wounds. Bernard Perlman of Mt. Sinai Hospital illustrated his talk for ABC with a plaster model of the brain; painstaking journalism can be painful to watch. So, too, was the appearance of Dr. Lawrence Pool of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, who had talked long-distance to a member of the Good Samaritan surgical team and who on CBS's Manhattan radio station-and later on NBC-TV-gave Americans the first warning that the brain damage was much more "ominous" than...
Further down the ladder, Harvard maintained a clear superiority. Captain Jose Gonzales relied upon his big first service to plaster his opponent, 6-2, 6-2. Once Gonzales got to the net he became unbeatable, putting away every ball in sight...
...action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms full of wood and plaster along with oddments culled from junk heaps, including a Sex-Murder Cave, which housed a red-stained bro ken plaster cast of a female nude...
...about making his selections. Even among art dealers, he is known for the hard bargains he drives rather than for esthetic likes or dislikes. Despite Neumann's taciturnity, Picasso seems to have been taken with his company, and Sculptor George Segal took him on a tour of his plaster-castery. As far as Neumann is concerned, the secret of his success as a collector will remain just that. Says he elliptically: "The works collected me. I didn't collect them...