Word: sphinx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the political, social and moral explications of Wednesday's invasion and Thursday's eviction, the Oedipal should not be overlooked: the sons of the family deposed the fathers (the Deans), riddled the Sphinx (the confidential files), and seized the womb (University Hall). The primacy of the fathers was restored with a ram and night sticks. Joel E. Cohen '65 Junior Fellow
...woman the nun," Edvard Munch once confided. The Norwegian fin de siècle painter was explaining one of his favorite compositions, which showed three women standing together-one in black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...
...Sphinx series is far from Munch's finest work. The pictures are too busy, too fussy, too blatantly overloaded with message. Possibly because they meant so much to the artist, they lured him into abandoning his cardinal principles of art. Munch developed his spare "symbolistic" style about 1892. It was based on the elimination of modeling and minor details, on emphasizing rhythmic contours and outlines. Above all, it meant subjugating technique to subject, then crystalizing subject itself into a single unforgettable image...
...buff-colored cement by Norway's Carl Nesjar. Nesjar will etch the skin of the sculpture by sandblasting, to reveal the basalt underneath in lines that will duplicate Picasso's brushstrokes. When completed, Sylvette will be half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt...
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