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Throughout, Voznesensky's work is transfigured by metaphors. A man clothes himself in a suit, a car, a garage, a nation, a planet, a cosmos-and then realizes that he has forgotten his watch. Timeless, he has lost his place in history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...
...student, I was greatly disheartened by Rockefeller's scheme to sell reproductions of his collection [Dec. 18]. I work hard on my original pieces. Yet how can I compete with timeless entities such as Rodin or Modigliani? These "clone"' collectors don't want art-they want status symbols. Why don't they buy a Mercedes instead? At least they can drive that...
...Government shares some of the blame for delay. "Like the Vatican," says Hazard, "federal agencies have a certain timeless interest." A Wall Street Journal editorial charged that in the IBM case the Government spent 5½ years in preparation and took three more years to present its case at trial...
...broke his truce between surrealism and abstraction. Preoccupied with "tragic and timeless" subject matter, Rothko wanted to invest the entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years...
...three-year task of recording the anguish of townspeople poisoned by mercury dumped into local waters by a chemical company. Although he was severely beaten and nearly blinded by goons, he documented the tragedy in his book Minamata, published in 1975. An intense, uncompromising craftsman, Smith strove to make timeless, pointed statements about the human condition. "Photography is not just a job to me," he once explained. "I'm carrying a torch with a camera...