Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet, and Mr. Bluff a great novelist. One of poshlost's favorite breeding places has always been the Art Exhibition; there it is produced by so-called sculptors working with the tools of wreckers, building crankshaft cretins of stainless steel, zen stereos, polystyrene stinkbirds, objects trouves in latrines, cannon balls, canned balls. There we admire the gabinetti wall-patterns of so-called abstract artists, Freudian surrealism, roric smudges and Rorschach blots, all of it as corny in its own right as the academic 'September Morns' and 'Florentine Flowergirls' of half...
...dislikes having his work classified as either abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding, twisting and welding together the sheets and found scraps of steel, aluminum, chrome, tin and copper that jam to overflowing the two back-to-back garages he uses as a studio on Chicago's North Cleveland Street...
...development becomes predictable. He puts himself in a straitjacket." Certainly no one could accuse Hunt of being predictable, yet the 41 works at Milwaukee, created over a ten-year period, betray an artistic progression. Hunt's work has evolved from small, dark, intense, relatively small copper or steel constructions to larger, looser but still eerily vigorous ones in shiny aluminum. Hunt likes the polished effect that comes from disk-grinding the aluminum because "it changes its texture, and gives a volumetric quality...
Time and location were the biggest problems with Scarborough. The University of Toronto wanted the building finished by September, 1966. Andrews was commissioned in July, 1964. He was forced to design the building while it was under construction. He couldn't have used steel even if he had wanted to because "I didn't know exactly what was going on top even while we were pouring the concrete for the foundation. Steel requires precise knoweldge of stresses which we obviously didn't have," said the young designer...
Flamboyant Showman Roy Hofheinz already has his own personal steel and Lucite colosseum-the $38 million Houston Astrodome. But he figured that the old Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could...