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With increasing enthusiasm, U.S. businesses have become the Medicis of modern art, but never have U.S. artists received such an imaginative boost from business as they did last week. S. C. Johnson and Son (wax products) announced that it had spent about $750,000 to buy one recent painting each by a representative selection of the nation's top artists. It was the largest single industrial investment in art to date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When...
...Aldo Calo, 52, can turn out spiky sculptures that look like giant cacti or a cluster of forms tailored to elegance. But he also has a passion for "the free gesture." He often punches his fist through a plaque of wax, which is then cast into bronze. Another "free gesture'' was achieved by smashing a hole through a triangular piece of wood with a sledge hammer...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. This war story makes a point that others fudge: a soldier in combat is close to insanity...
...latest movie she shimmies through one sequence in a blonde wig, a few tassels, enough feathers for a sparrow's spring plumage, and not much else. Even so, Italy's Gina Lollobrigida was shocked when Hollywood's new Wax Museum unveiled a reclining likeness of her in a black slip hiked up somewhere between navel and knees. "Please, Sig-nori" pleaded La Lollo, "the short slip shows too much Gina." The museum's directors were sympathetic, but they wouldn't dream of tampering with a work of art. The patrons seem to appreciate it, they...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. A complex, absorbing narrative about a hard-driven infantry company in combat...