Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert C. Wood will become the new director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard...
...Wood is expected to announce today at a news conference in Washington that he will accept the nomination made by the Presidents of the two universities and an Administrative committee...
Geometry is all very well, but it works better if it is combined with wit: witness George Sugarman's whirling yellow-green Square Spiral, which sends the eye circling dizzily through the empty hole of its central vortex. John Anderson has built an immense symmetrical flower-like wood carrousel, calls it Baroque. Minimal forms still massively demand their unrewarding space, but they are countered by weirdly eccentric shapes that are frankly frivolous, at least unpredictable. California's William Geis, the gutsiest of the out-of-town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal...
Bach himself never dreamed of such a thing. Rarely has an artist ever worked with less thought of teaching posterity. He considered himself not an artist, but an artisan, no more elevated in stature than a cabinetmaker with his tools and wood. This was before the Romantic era introduced a more heroic, self-indulgent conception of the artist; still, even some of Bach's contemporaries were afflicted with careerism and flashes of temperament. Bach, throughout his life, merely tried to do an honest job. "I was obliged to be industrious," he said. "Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just...
When Andy Warhol sent an impostor to represent him on a lecture tour eleven months ago, he was offering the public another medium of pop art. The deception was not essentially different from producing soup cans and Brillo boxes in wood and paint. Pop art is premised, after all, on the belief that the surfaces of things are what really matter, or that, as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...