Word: ziggurats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club. He showed exquisitely molded wax sculptures of raw gobbets of flesh ;n 1964 and 1965. In 1967 he expanded his repertory to display a full-sized cast of himself at Manhattan's Stable Gallery dressed -as a dead hippie and laid out full length inside a pink ziggurat-shaped tomb. The cadaver was a huge success; it toured to London and the Kassel Documenta. For his show at the Stable this spring, he chose a far subtler and less sensational idea: a latex cast showing himself as an underwater swimmer with shoals of delicate small fish clinging...
Proud Zigs. As the works grew more monumental, Smith experimented with bright enamels to keep his monuments joyful. Color endows three flat, empty-centered "Circles" with dashing zest. Enamels brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon...
EQUALLY mindful of his aged bones and exalted station, Berosus the High Priest slowly mounted the stone ramp that spiraled seven times around the great ziggurat and brought him into the presence of the Beings. They blazed and glittered in the night sky above the sleeping city of Babylon far below?imperceptibly wheeling in the ancient celestial dance that contained the secrets of the future of the kingdom. The signs, he saw, were good. Zibbati was well advanced in the Way of Enlil, supported by glowing Ishtar, which favored success in arms. On the morrow, he would tell the king...
...that last week the disappearing-environmentalists were summoned back for a return engagement. This time the artists built nine pyramids out of 20 tons of dry-ice blocks over a period of three days. By the time the last was up, the first had already evaporated from its original ziggurat perfection down to a jumble of tipsy marshmallow forms...
...panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously chose Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer, 64, whose recently opened inverted-ziggurat Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan drew hostile criticism until it proved to be a perfect host...