Word: vase
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the last Baker Electric hummed down Main Street, dowager at the tiller, rose in the bud vase, esoteric autophiles have been yearning for the return of the stately "bucket of volts" that was as quiet as a railroad watch and almost as cheap to operate...
...buried behind the Mausoleum in a cemetery reserved for faintly dubious or dimly famous Red heroes-the folksy ex-President of Russia, Mikhail Kalinin, the ardent Stalinist Andrei Zhdanov, the founder of the secret police. Felix Dzerzhinsky, and U.S. Comrade John Reed. Capping the whole macabre comedy, a vase with twelve white chrysanthemums was placed on the new grave of the man who had just been certified over and over again as a mass murderer...
...either the nature or the task of art, though it may change expression." However, he said while it is conceivable that the Einsteinian universe is gradually altering the way art conceives of time and space, similar conceptions were an element in French medieval drama, early Christian art, or Greek vase paintings...
...gullible dealers. In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces-three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now in Berlin's Old Museum. For the big head, they used a small terra-cotta vase-head that-ironically-is now owned by the Met. And for the second standing warrior, they used a photograph of a figure on an Etruscan sarcophagus that the British Museum had bought. Perhaps, being conscientious forgers, they would never have used the sarcophagus had they known that some 20 years later...
...bronze. Yet Robus never lost his humor. He himself would refer to his graceful sculpture of a girl washing her hair as Soap in Her Eyes. He did Three Caryatids Without a Portico, a Water Carrier with a pitcher for a head ("Just a jughead, I guess"), and "a vase that takes its head off." Hugo Robus' figures have a fluid charm that makes them bend to unheard melodies and swirl to soundless rhythms. But only in the last five years have these figures brought him enough to live on, and the Whitney show is the biggest...