Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comics & Bubble Gum. The Whitney's curators found few artists portraying local flavor in the tradition of Grant Wood. What they discovered instead was regional groups with a common outlook, like the West Coast's "funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers...
...Officer Lloyd Hicks, who runs the project, "and it's like a walking wanted card. Officers checking the ident tapes later really get the feeling that they know the man they're after." During a race riot outside a high school in the Chicago suburb of May wood, Sheriff Joseph Woods had his tape crew record the entire scene. When police brutality was later charged, Woods simply hauled out his tapes and proved his deputies innocent...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD puts a Shakespearean duo in a Pirandellian situation, then confers on them Beckettian angst mixed with Beyond the Fringe humor. British Playwright Tom Stoppard's play is well served by the acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the direction of Derek Goldby...
Thonet's method of construction, of making a straight piece of wood curve and not break without the steam and pressure techniques now available, is explained in the words-and-pictures history of chairs and their production at the Carpenter exhibit...
Aside from the conscious and obvious deference Katayama shows to Le Corbusier's building, there are more subtle relationships between the two designers. Katayama's white panel boxes have no curves, only planes and right angles that are contraforms to set off the flows in Thonet's wood. One wonders if Katayama had in mind Le Corbusier's statement that "the right angle is the primordial sign of the ordering and organizing spirit." And just as Carpenter Center has no real front or back--its axis diagonal to Quincy Street and entrance buried in the middle--so too Katayama...