Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty, at her window: "I ain't prepared...
...eyes and sponsors' pleas ringing in his ears, Scarfe finally turned off the tube and sought the relative quiet of our editorial offices. There he converted a conference room into a bizarre workshop. The staff watched with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick...
Ordinarily, the Paris-Match building crackles with Gallic electricity as Europe's best-paid, most buoyant journalists exclaim over their latest exploits, argue about politics and shout out the window to pretty girls who preen in a cafe across the street in the hope that they may get their pictures in the magazine. But last week a heavy silence settled on Paris-Match. Staffers moved listlessly, speaking in low, conspiratorial whispers. An idle copy boy watched over the managing editor's office while its usual occupant, Andre Lacaze, appeared at the entrance to the building, waving an envelope...
Americans look at their past through a special window and with special vision. Unlike the Greeks viewing the Parthenon, the Italians the Forum, the French the Louvre, Americans do not look for monuments of former greatness and glory. Their quest is rather that of a people who feel they have achieved much and expect to achieve more - but who also want to understand the roots of that achievement...
...Squeeze seems to loom above the viewer far larger than its actual eight feet because its vanishing point is situated a foot or so below the painting, in what is known as "worm's-eye perspective." Traditionally, perspective was used to make a painting seem to open a window into the wall; Lukin uses the technique to make Squeeze...