Word: plexiglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted--shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what...
...there is no plexiglass mounted around the top of the boards. Instead, the fans are protected by chain link fence, which is nearly impossible to see through. Before the game I felt like I was at the zoo, waiting for the polar bears to come out and perform. After watching the Dartmouth fans, I think...
While through a plexiglass window passers-by watched the hole grow, others watched the destruction of Hunt Hall with interest--and perhaps a tear or two. Film teacher Stan Lowder described the building as one of "dignity, of a type that will never be built again." The building was razed despite the protests of a committee of faculty and students to "Save Hunt Hall...
Some pieces in the exhibition are quite striking and hold their own without the need of an explanation. Gordon Olson, while investigating the problem of color transparency in three dimensions, created an extremely beautiful plexiglass sculpture that produces different color overlaps and transparencies as the viewer walks around it. Perhaps only as an independent study could Robert Stortz work on his unusual, cylindrical light sculpture consisting of two fluorescent lights encased in pieces of colored plastic. Another piece worth nothing is a metal sculpture done by Tom Costagliola meant to spin under the force of falling water...
...Doherty, the University policeman who investigated the theft, stated that the robbery was first detected by two museum visitors who saw one of the youths ripping his shirt off in front of the display case of coins. The report said that the youth, in withdrawing the coins from the plexiglass case, had apparently cut open his hand and was using his shirt to stop the bleeding...