Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earliest shaped-canvases in this exhibition reveal that Stella first cut out rectangular pieces from the edges of the painting. Rows of white pinstripes repeat the pattern of the sides. He coats the picture with a uniform quiet color-maroon, grey, or often black. And by evenly covering the whole surface, the thin stripes emphasize the outer shape. One of these canvases runs its zigzag olive green surface 23 feet along the wall. Here Stella plays with shadowed color that makes the stripes seem to move in three dimensional space as well as on the flat surface...
...PROBLEM with this kind of social analysis, however, lies in its economic and political innocence. Some of Douglas's observations are quite perceptive, but too many reveal a naive belief in the overriding importance of the law as the basis of organized human activity. His assertion that "If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential" indicate an ignorance of the economic forces in this country which determine not only for whom the law is written, but how it is practiced...
...caused him "severe mental and emotional distress." In California, as in many states, whenever a person makes such a claim he automatically waives his right to privacy in any relevant relations with a doctor. Each year, many psychiatrists respond to subpoenas or requests from their patients and reveal all kinds of secrets...
Despite these annoying moments, however, the book's approach may actually reveal a more profound understanding of what was at stake in the trial. If readers had not already surmised as much from press reports, this book makes it perfectly clear that the Conspiracy trial was not a simple criminal prosecution. As Dwight MacDonald points out in his superb introduction to Tales, the trial was a kulturkampf -a cultural war between the straightlaced propriety of Julius Hoffman and the uninhibited uproar of Abbie...
...formats. Full-length photographs were mounted on all four sides of a slab-shaped Styrofoam dummy to create Dale Quarterman's portrait of a leather-jacketed girl. From the back and sides, the girl is whole and clothed, but the dummy is cut out in front to reveal her in successively diminishing images, one within the other. In the last and smallest, she is completely nude. New Yorker Lyn Wells has made a life-size portrait of a neighbor by printing back and front views on sensitized linen, sewing the two pieces together along the outlines and filling...