Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plump Edwardians wander with suave decadence out of Aubrey Beardsley's world, and creatures consume them selves with Steinbergian detachment. There are silk screens from Warholville and numbers from Indiana. Psychedelia explodes and art nouveau swirls in the most unexpected places. Corridor doors are open on surrealist nightmares, Freudian symbolisms and early movies-all combined in a swiveting, swirling splurge of phantasmagoria, puns, pastiches and visual non sequiturs...
...familiar McClellandisms (witty visual and literary interjections) enrich this poster. Plump black letters which form a compositionally important triangle read "Hundreds of boys across the sea: everything for democracy." The Boggie--an all-line quasi-doggie--stops at this poster before moving on to McClelland's Bayeux Tavestry, a facetious tapestry he designed for the Lampoon...
...articulately advertises that the play was gay and bawdy and lively. His fuchsia and orange design, which includes an upside-down Art Nouveau lady with the usual flowing tresses, also proves his ability to organize a graphically coherent page. Highly original title letters with lacy curlings serifs and a plump curved "Georges Feydeau" add more Art Nouveau-type curvilinears appropriate to the late 19th century French farce...
...triptych centers on what can only be a dismembered corpse, with blood spattered on the castoff clothing and zippered travel bag. On either side are matching panels, which may - or may not - be the orgiastic prelude to butchery. On the left, two plump nude figures lie exhausted on a curious coffee table covered with mattresses and fitted with a mirror for self-viewing. On the right, two figures are ravenously devouring each other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon...
...resulting exhibit is not, strictly speaking, obscene, but many of the artists in it use phallic and fecal images to express their feelings about the mayor. William Copley sent in a 1965 painting in which a woman exposes her plump backside. Oldenburg did a series of 48 indefinably nasty plaster versions of Chicago's distinctive red fireplugs, which for diverse reasons remind him of the plug-ugly Chicago cops. He also made a drawing of a "proposed colossal monument" for Chicago showing