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Shortly before his completed Bible was released, Gutenberg was forced to turn over his shop and at least some of his equipment to his creditor Fust, who carried on the work, alone at first and later with the assistance of his son-in-law Peter Schoffer. The monopoly they may have had on Gutenberg's methods did not last long. Presses adapted to print from movable type rapidly spread across Europe. By 1500 an estimated 30,000 titles had been published...
...generation of children that could still dream of earthly fantasies like buried treasure and magic visitors. "The Globolinks I've thought up for the unsentimental children of the new generation," he says. He also designed it as total theater. Menotti enlisted the aid of Kinetic Sculptor Nicolas Schoffer and avant-garde Choreographer Alwin Nikolais to place The Globolinks in the proper visual orbit. Schoffer designed the production as a Now Generation light show, employing spotlights, slide projectors and blinking flashbulbs. He provided a continuous flow of color patterns that alternately suggested cityscapes, outer space, subterranean depths. Nikolais devised...
Menotti scored most of the 70-minute one-act opera in his familiar, simple melodic style, interspersed with eerie electronic sounds. The composer regards the contrast between traditional musicality and switched-on sound in The Globolinks as a kind of autobiographical parody of his own position in the arts. "Schoffer and Nikolais are the children of this generation," says Menotti. "Theirs is the world of mechanized art; mine is still the world of art as dictated by human emotion." In The Globolinks, he has proved that the twain can sometimes meet...
Hungarian-born Schoffer painted dolls in a Paris factory before World War II, fought with a Maquis hill band during the German occupation. "Under the shock of war," he says, "I evolved into a different sort of person. I began meeting intellectuals; I began sculpting new ideas; I began to hold conferences...
...theme of Schoffer's "conferences" he calls spatiodynamisme. Sculpture, he thinks, should reach up and out to dominate space, rather than simply filling a certain portion of it. Modern materials such as tempered steel make such "dynamic" sculptures possible on a grand scale, and the addition of so-called music by electronic means would make them pretty hard to ignore. But Schoffer's success in getting his tower sculpture constructed is only the beginning. "My goal," he says solemnly, "is a city built up around this tower and, so to speak, taking its essence from the sculpture...