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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:15-3:45 p.m.). Floyd Patterson challenges Jimmy Ellis for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight championship. Live from Stockholm via satellite. Taped events from the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials round out the program...
Constructivism began in Russia as a spidery brand of pure and formal abstraction. Some proclaim Naum Gabo as its founder; some argue that his brother, Antoine Pevsner, has an equal claim; and some urge the case of Painter Kasimir Malevich. Now Stockholm's Modern Museum has mounted an exhibit of paintings, photographs and models designed to show that Vladimir Tallin (1885-1953) was the most constructive constructivist...
...form. While Gabo and Pevsner fled to the West, Tatlin ended his days in Russia as an obscure drafts man and stage designer, experimenting with Leonardo-like flying machines. (The Soviet government apparently still thinks so little of him that it refused to lend any work to the Stockholm show.) But in retrospect, argues the Modern Museum's Pontus Hulten, "Tatlin is emerging ever more clearly as one of the few really great figures of 20th century art. His ideas mean more at present for many of the younger artists than Picasso or the surrealists...
...that was to be erected over the Neva River in Leningrad. It would have been the world's highest structure. A 22-ft.-high model was displayed in Moscow in 1920 and a new version of it in Paris in 1925. But it was never built. Engineers in Stockholm have reconstructed the model from photographs, complete with four slowly revolving inner structures shaped variously like a pyramid, a hemisphere and two cylinders. Overall, Tatlin's monument looks rather like a cross between the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...accepting the German language, "the language I had learned at the beginning of my life, the natural language that was my tool, that now belonged to me alone and had nothing more to do with the land where I had grown up ... I could live in Paris or in Stockholm, in London or New York . . . That evening, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country...