Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Lucas Samaras was a small boy in Macedonia, his father was the village furrier. "I spent a couple of summers in the business to find out what it was all about," he recalls. "Part of it was to stretch wet skins, fur down, on a board and pin the edges down. Later, when the skin is dry, you remove the pins and the skin is hard." In some ways this fragment of memory suggests the works of art Samaras was to make in adulthood: the pins, the textures, the extreme sensual contrasts (soft hair against the stink of tanning...
...today the skin is not an animal's; it is, so to speak, his own. Samaras' retrospective, which opens this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, is a singular and fascinating record of anxious self-inspection...
...SKIN CANCER. Dr. Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo has succeeded, in the course of experimental work, in apparently curing up to 95% of 500 patients with superficial skin tumors. He applies anti-cancer ointments to the skin lesions. By similar means, Dr. Eugene Van Scott of Temple University in Philadelphia has produced regressions during the past four years in half of 75 patients with mycosis fungoides, a cancer that starts on the skin. The therapy proved effective when the disease was limited to the skin and when treatment was begun prior to lymph-node involvement...
...Davies runs a roadhouse band, an inebriated, often sloppy, occasionally off-key crowd of louts who are proud of their loutishness. So Ray sprays the front rows with beer, during a drunken and therefore mock-puritanical version of "Alcohol," just before reminding us who he is, with "Skin and Bone," about Muswell Hill`s "fist, Bobby Annie;" and who he becomes, with "Yes Really Got Me," and "All Day and All of the Nights...
...face in the view finder. She refused to generalize. There was no family, and the unshared particularity of her subjects was recorded as it lay, dense, mediocre and impenetrable. "What I'm trying to describe," she declared, "is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's. And that's what all this is a little bit about. That somebody else's tragedy is not your...