Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copper wire, woodcuts and lumps of busted ceramic. It is highly unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...polluted by Nazi appropriation. When Kiefer paints a Nazi monument, such as the Mosaic Room in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...
...blond personification of ideal German womanhood, and Shulamite, the cremated Jewess who is also the archetypal Beloved of the Song of Solomon, interweave in Kiefer's work in a haunting and oblique way. Margarete's presence is signaled, like a motif in music, by long wisps of golden straw, while Shulamite's emblem is charred substance and black shadow. Hence Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite, 1983: a Piranesian perspective of a squat, fire-blackened crypt, the paint laid thick in an effort to convey the ruggedness of the masonry, whose architectural source (as Mark Rosenthal points...
...trio called the Tidal Waves comes out in straw hats and Mexican ponchos to do the Kingston Trio's Tijuana Jail at 45 r.p.m. Donnie Lovedart does a hip- rolling dance and flips hearts backhand to the ladies. The two girls in housecoats (bad news, Kim, they're back on the bill tonight) demand "R-e-s-p- e-c-t." And in a strategic countermove, Buchan leaves Lili von Shtupp in the dressing room, teases out her hair and does her Whoopi Goldberg routine instead -- head rocking brainlessly from side to side, arms flopping in front of her like...
...newcomers may be just as flat-footed as the old team: three weeks ago Gephardt's Iowa lieutenants tried to organize a secret straw poll of Democrats attending the annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinner, though the party had banned such entrance surveys. The gambit failed when police dispersed the polltakers. But a greater problem is that his candidacy just has not caught fire. Instead of getting the chance to break out of the pack in Iowa, Gephardt may doom his candidacy there...