Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...network of interlocking organizations-trade unions, youth groups, administrative hierarchies, control commissions, agitation and propaganda centers-with the party as its nucleus. Before anyone else in history, he recognized the limitless potential of political and social engineering to reach into every aspect of a people's life and transform it. The durability and power of the Soviet regime testify to Lenin's essential genius as the theoretician of political organization...
...find a Russian chauvinist, and who said that Western Communists would do a better job of building Communism than the Russians. In his own country, he is the Lenin who said, "Communism equals Soviet power plus electrification," who thought Russia's main duty to international Communism was to transform itself into a mighty industrial society, and who was profoundly intolerant of any dissent from party policy...
...from photographs? No reason at all, say a growing number of young American and Canadian artists. During the past few years they have been adding a third dimension to photography by sealing photographs in plastic, molding them into shapes and building them into complex structures that transform the original picture. Most of these sculptor-photographers work on the West Coast, and many have studied at U.C.L.A. with Robert Hei-necken, at 38 the old master of the genre. This week some 50 of their pieces go on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art in a show...
...eerie deep spaces. Vancouver's 25-year-old Michael DeCourcy prints high-contrast images of waves, pebbles and flying birds on the sides of cardboard boxes, then has them stacked up by workmen in whatever arrangement they choose. Vacuum molding enables Californians Robert Brown and James Pennuto to transform aerial photographs of rugged terrain into three-dimensional centour maps. The simplest work of all is Jerry McMillan's Torn Bag: a paper bag ripped open to reveal a delicate woodland landscape printed on the inside...
...Introducing the Art Festival's present season will be a demonstration of the objects of Franz Walther, a young German artist recently on display in the "Spaces" exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art. Walther will transform an environment into a functional space, in which he plans to teach participants to employ his instrument-things in a series of exercises designed to inspire creative exploration of their inner thoughts. He hesitates to call his pieces "art," referring to each one, instead, as an object-instrument-topic-piece-work-thing-plant-unit-concept...