Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor prizes at the Carnegie International in 1958 and the Venice Biennale in 1960. One of the many European art brut abstractionists who explored the beauties of raw texture after World War II, Burri makes a sort of mad Braille with collages of blistered burlap (called sacco), charred wood (combustioni), and lately, slashed and melted sheets of colored plastic. How to make an esthetic of ugliness is his prime concern, but in the fresh face of contemporary attempts to create more colorful and realistic art, Burri's tortured veneers have come to seem a little drab and dated...
...primitive presence of a goddess disturbed from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
...year that the French impressionists last showed as a group-1886-the 27-year-old Hassam arrived in Paris. He had served an apprenticeship to a Boston wood engraver, then worked as an illustrator for Harper's, Scribner's and Century magazines. As a current retrospective exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts shows (see opposite page), his brush was already sensing moods of light and time of day. He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine...
...almost the same split second the gun sounded, getting a 50-yd. jump on Miss Notre Dame. No one even got close to him as he swept across the finish line at an average speed of 110.655 m.p.h. Said Musson: "If I can win five cups to tie Gar Wood and then win one more for myself, it's doubtful that anyone at any time can beat that record." He is halfway there...
...exception. Through judicious, and admitted, dippings into Dr. Margaret Murray's books on medieval witchcraft, she throws a shadowy net of the supernatural around her story, suggesting that Henry II's great-uncle, King William Rufus, died in a ritual cabalistic murder in a sacred wood, and strongly hinting that Henry himself was doing the Devil's work as much as Becket was doing God's. Since Thomas is fiction, not history, Author Mydans need not apologize for her liberties. Nor for her writing, which is smooth when Becket walks in piety and muscular when...