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...They may keep weird hours, embrace extraordinary life-styles and befuddling living arrangements, but they are a community. All the characters Paul thinks he is encountering at random turn out to be related in curious and startling ways. The random events through which he moves form a kind of rebus, telling him, "Keep out, square." And yet, of course, a great city's artists are the keepers of its deepest mysteries, and every citizen of spirit has risked the kind of embarrassing dislocation Paul experiences in order to taste them...
...Robert Rauschenberg is back; but then, the rumors that he had gone away were greatly exaggerated. It is almost 30 years since his "combine" paintings-rebus-like assemblies of every imaginable waste object, from beach tar to stuffed chickens, from electric fans to auto tires, slathered in abstract expressionist paint drips-burst upon the American art world. Nearly two decades, a lifetime for some artists, have elapsed since his first prize at the Venice Biennale (back when the Biennale mattered) heralded the "imperial" entry of American art into Europe. The unwanted reward of a career like Rauschenberg...
...under these circumstances, but, he says, "in order to come out of our economic crisis, it would be foolish not to utilize the parliamentary nonbelligerence of any political group that believes this government the only one possible." He adds, "In politics there is a clause that is always valid: rebus sic stantibus [circumstances being what they...
...Dadaist Kurt Schwitters. Rauschenberg remembers being "amazed" by the Schwitters collages he saw at the Museum of Modern Art, and he was particularly influenced by the way they were composed on a horizontal-vertical grid. "He wasn't using diagonals. I hate diagonals!" The effect shows in works like Rebus. 1955?a curiously fugitive image despite its size, full of airy space and images of flight: the winds from Botticelli's Birth of Venus, photographs of a bee, a dragonfly, a mosquito and a fly's eye. Gradually the objects became more dominant...
...plan was no blueprint for union of the churches, no design for history-making doctrinal upheaval, but a puzzle contest. Its purpose: to raise $100,000 for the A.C.U. by offering $50,000 in prize money to contributors who solve a series of rebus puzzles with terse clues. (Example: "He was a Union general in the Civil War. He made a famous ride.") So far, despite the precautions of the A.C.U., the contest has raised more fuss than funds...