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...have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come out of your closet." Rosenberg promises...
DIED. Harold Rosenberg, 72, author (Saul Steinberg, Barnett Newman) and art critic of The New Yorker; of a stroke, in Springs, N.Y. Rosenberg's essays on Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Motherwell and Rothko, whom he called action painters, helped legitimize the first New York school of abstract expressionism...
Critic Harold Rosenberg is absolutely right: "No artist is more relevant than Steinberg" [April 17]. To avoid boredom, he has doodled his way into the realm of the art world as a "serious" artist...
...doyen of cartoonists, Saul Steinberg is also to growing numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal...
...signs the size of provincial churches; all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their long heels like human stilts. The drawings testify to America's unutterable strangeness in the eyes of a young European who could not as yet speak English. "Individuals unmasking themselves only to reveal other masks," Rosenberg notes in his essay, "verbal cliches masquerading as things, a countryside that is an amalgam of all imported styles, an outlook that is at once conventional and futuristic?America was made to order for Steinberg...