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...architectural scale. But nobody had given this juncture between the categories of art the intense poetic charge that Nevelson brought to it. This became triumphantly clear in the large sculptures she started producing in the late '50s, the environmental walls. Essentially they consist of irregular stacks of shallow boxes, filled with forms in relief and painted black. They have an extraordinarily dignified, almost hieratic sense of presence. Under the unifying skin of black paint (ordinary house paint sprayed on the raw wood), the rich accumulations of shape, the curious offcuts and repeated units, are as effectively transmuted into pure...
...same time, the flatness of the walls and screens-the boxes were shallow, and Nevelson rarely tried to make sculpture-in-the-round-gave them a great depth of pictorial suggestion. One seemed to be looking not at an explicit sculptural fact but at a dark reef of nuances: form laid beside and over form, shadow vanishing into deeper shadow, leading the eye inward to a profusion of veiled detail that demanded the most strenuous attention. In an environment she showed at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959, Dawn's Wedding Feast (reassembled in her 1980 show...
...looked like heaven," she recalls. "It was very magical." There is an obvious and durable link between that epiphany in the candy store and the regulating image of Nevelson's mature work: the serried boxes, each holding its array of repeated forms, offered for inspection in a shallow space...
...Such a shallow recession will have differing impacts on various areas of the economy. The downturn is not expected, for example, to affect employment seriously. The jobless rate is projected to climb from its present level of 7.5% to a peak of 8.2% in 1981's second quarter, before slipping back to 8% at year's end. The public, however, can expect little relief on prices next year. From a 1980 inflation rate of 13%, the board of economists projected that the increase in consumer prices will only slow to 11.4% at best...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...