Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those few Italians within earshot were somewhat nonplused when an American Indian named Lucky Eagle stepped off a Boeing 747 at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport and declared: "In the name of the Indian people, I claim the right of discovery and take possession of this land...
...satires and celebrations of mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride−and art−in 1923. Incomplete, indecipherable, broken and repaired, the large glass structure is still instructive and hypnotic...
...impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ...
Overtures. Francis I had reason to be infatuated with Italy. He had conquered some of it in 1515, when he was only 21; and the first Italian artist to come under his barely fledged wing was Leonardo da Vinci, who went to France and died in the royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome...
...This airport is like the Inferno. One manages to get into it, one is badly off inside and one doesn't know how to get out." So a Belgian priest complained to the management of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport, less grandly known as Fiumicino (Little River). Infernal it is. On an average day the 22,000 passengers who land, take off or transit at Fiumicino on 62 different commercial carriers participate in a drama worthy of Dante...