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...highly polished pair of workman's boots (he spent two weeks polishing them) set on a platform of linoleum foil and enclosed in an immaculately machined glass box. They suggest a display in the front window of some country store with a cracker barrel and iron stove in side. The title apparently has some obscure relevance in Westermann's mind to his reverence for honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They're comfortable and give your ankles support." Wet Flower is his imagination at its most antic. Stylized flowers droop over a stone inscribed...
...dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes sunbathing, then faked in Monet's scene, "aged" it in front of a gas stove and out in the sun, and finally painted the nudes back on top. Said Kiesel: "We wanted to protest against the middle-class stock-certificate-on-theW&U COHCCpt Of 3^. Attd we wanted to demonstrate against the 'experts' who are a little too quick to 'authenticate...
CREPE PEASANT BLOUSE with CREPE STOVE-PIPE SLACKS and India multi-mirror vest...that put together Gypsy-Peasant look...
...success and glamour have passed by. She can't keep a job (she loses a position as a meter maid because she doesn't have the heart to give a ticket); she attracts wretched men; and, when she cooks dinner for a gentlemen caller, the meal burns on the stove...
...sardonic, 20th century Ahab, ever raging against a malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that God mocks man's aspirations, a daily confirmation of the absurdity of it all. Infuriated by Evans' platitudes, O'Rourke responds by plunging his fist into a stove and slowly squeezing the heat out of a burning coal...