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...time of great music, classic music -- definitive American popular music -- but one notable writer didn't think so. Ring Lardner, the humorist of humble wonders and the ironist of old-time virtues, was driven to rages of wit over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind...
Gustimirovic has no home save the small couch he sleeps on and the coffeemaker he has scrounged and placed neatly in what must have been the chalet's laundry room. A mess tin near the bed is filled with red and yellow tulips. Nearby stands a pile of straight branches; these will become cigarette ) holders when the line is quiet...
What such an art might look like, though, was not immediately apparent. With some foresight, it might have been glimpsed in Picasso's famous rusty tin Cubist Guitar of 1912 -- all planes and interstitial spaces. But it wasn't realized until 1928, when Picasso, who had spent much of that year making diagrammatic drawings for sculptures that would be executed in nothing but wire, sought out the help of Gonzalez, who taught him to weld iron. Picasso's energies, in turn, seem to have inspired in Gonzalez the daring to become an inventive sculptor in his own right. The Picasso...
Both men realized how things already made of iron could be brought into sculpture, thus extending the aesthetics of assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together...
...foot-tall tin trophy? No. It's hard to believe in this cynical age, but this was a game for the game's sake...