Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Copley's pictures are not intended to be seen as mere gags, of course. His adaptation of the bold black line and super-simple draftsmanship of the early comics predates Pop. Of late, he has developed bright geometric patterns as an effective foil for his figures. Neither as disturbing as the Surrealists nor as incisive as some Pop artists, he yet fills a niche in which form and humor are as indispensable to each other as wit and word in a limerick. "I see painting as poetry," he says. "Humor, after all is the reminder that we are mortal...
...Bartley's (Mass Ave. by the Harvard Bookstore) explores the hamburger medium as far as it will go. Starting from the basic Bun'n Burger it escalates to the Muenster Cheeseburger, the Super Pizzaburger, the Hawaii Pineapple Burger, the Texas Chiliburger, and so on. If you keep your orders orthodox, you will find it very good...
...Lion's Club. He was sleeping in the gutter. A little water passed under his body to the drain at his feet. He didn't so much have a beard as straight white course hairs growing all over his face and head. He was wrapped in a super-large suit coat that didn't match his tattered pants. His stomach was enormous and there were red sores on his ankles. And two kids were sitting in a doorway with a blanket, looking...
Self-Imprisoned. It is just here that existential thought seemingly departs from the mainstream. To Freud, man was the hapless prisoner of his past. The best that he could hope for in the present was a truce with those stern and deterministic taskmasters whom Freud called the Super Ego and the Id. The goal of life was "adjustment." Hence it followed that unhappiness, anxiety and guilt were usually pathological states -a measure of the struggle against those dynamic and contradictory forces...
...other industries, financially ailing companies are also turning to Washington for help. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee voted $200 million in contingency funds for the C5A super-transport in order to aid cash-short Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor. The week before, by awarding the Air Force's new B-l bomber contract to North American Rockwell, a company with little recent bomber experience, the Administration lifted the threat of layoffs hanging over thousands of Southern California aerospace workers in an election year. Now Wall Street brokerage firms are asking Washington...