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Hopper never lost his grasp of the poetic possibilities of such utterances. It stayed with him right to the end and produced some miraculously unsparing images, notably the figure of his wife Jo, A Woman in the Sun, 1961, standing like a middle-aged caryatid on a plinth of golden light in the bare Hopperian room, wearing nothing but a cigarette. In it, the distances between wall and wall, window and sky, or the lit edge of the curtain and the worn radiant torso, take on something of the strangeness of the space in a good De Chirico. The body...
...ever will be could marry and be happy and give birth to many sons and the common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because the only one who could oppose them had begun to rot beneath a lead plinth. The only thing left then was for someone to lean a stool against a doorway to tell this story, lesson and example for future generations, so that not one of the world's disbelievers would be left who did not know the story of Big Mama because tomorrow, Wednesday...
...Harbor is almost encircled by water. There is green parkland behind it, and to the west new skyscrapers and the arching, spidery profile of Harbor Bridge. Any structure built on the point would be thrust forward in a vast parenthesis of sea and air, displayed like sculpture on a plinth, and visible from almost every angle of the harbor. It would not be part of a street-not, therefore, "façade" architecture...
Nothing Oldenburg does is lacking in irony-and this includes his wish to make monuments. The traditional language of monuments was heroic-Napoleon gesturing on a marble plinth festooned with trophies and Graces, or Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni raking his bronze eyes across a conquered piazza from his striding horse. The monumental hero is, actually and metaphorically, bigger than life. But to make one, there has to be some belief in heroes, and there must be something to celebrate...
...lunar sample on display is the show's big letdown. As might be expected, the stuff is displayed dramatically in the center of a dark room, seated atop a black plinth and bathed in a single spot-light. This display conjures up an image of a 21st century altar complete with priceless relic-or a showcase of industrial diamonds at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, the sample contains no more than a few grams of the gray dust, and without a microscope to reveal the amazing green, brown and white colors of the individual glass shards or the weird dumbell and spheroid...