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Hejduk incorporated the houses into his search for an architectural language, a vocabulary of forms. As such, they exist in the realm of abstraction and generality not unlike the platonic world of forms. The landscape of Texas, with its sparse vegetation and flat expanses of land, provided a suitable environment for such investigation. There Hejduk saw objects as having a "clarity and remoteness." Texas, for him, "gave meaning to isolated objects and void spaces...
...views emphasize the horizontal and vertical as elements in time as well as space. The flat "wall-houses" exist on what Hejduk terms the "plane of the present." While the optimists of early Modernism spoke constantly of the future, Hejduk sees man as trapped in the compressed, two-dimensional realm of the moment...
WITH THE installation of Mary Miss's Mirror Way, the Fogg makes one of its all-too-infrequent ventures into the realm of contemporary art. The scaffold-like sculpture, constructed mostly of unfinished two-by-fours, is visually and conceptually anomalous to the neo-Renaissance interior of the museum courtyard...
...scientists have come away from the mountain basically with confirmations of what they already knew- primarily from observing volcanoes in Hawaii-rather than with any new and startling insights. Says Donald Peterson, the U.S.G.S scientist in charge on the scene: "Everything the mountain has done has been within the realm of our expectations...
...complex interplay of nearallegorical characters assumes the aspect, at times, of a philosophical inquiry. A banished duke holds court over a pastoral golden age in the forest; his men pluck the lute, sing, and sleep while Jaques the melancholiac provides counterpoint to their contentment. Into their hermetically enchanted realm bound a pair of lovers, whose parabolic approaches give Shakespeare an excuse to examine the nature of obligation and fidelity in love...