Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAND OF THE HIGH FLAGS by Rosanne Klass. 319 pages. Random House...
...sculpture is painstakingly crafted. The practitioners of junkyard assemblages have dwindled. Brutalism for its shock effect is on the wane. A new trend is the number of works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...
...closer and closer to the picture plane, like noses pressed against a window pane. Johns is totally uninterested in the game of perspective; his interest is in the surface of the canvas and in putting instantly recognizable symbols through rigorous permutations. He slathers and slurries his images with a random, painterly stroke reminiscent of the abstract expressionists. He rubs sterile graphic images in an artist's saucy delight of texture...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY by John O'Hara. 429 pages. Random House...
...material - circumstantial evidence that suggests the mark must be more recent than the meteor impact that formed Tycho's crater. Dr. O'Keefe noticed, too, that the mark is in line with set of ridges called wrinkles. Since these are all reasonably parallel, they cannot come from random meteor impacts but are probably of internal origin like the parallel ridges of many earthly mountains...