Word: artifacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camper and toured New Mexico's hippie communes dispensing tools and practical advice to the new settlers. That original Truck Store turned a modest profit of $300, and Brand decided to expand into a mail-order operation that would provide wider, more efficient dissemination of theory, fact and artifact. Working for months with a small staff of testers and contributors, he turned out a catalogue with a first print order of 2,000. The book quickly proved so popular that he issued a second edition of 30,000 last spring, will produce a third, extensively revised version this month...
Rising Waters. As it has for centuries, Venice last week enticed and entranced a horde of tourists, part of the city's 3,000,000 annual visitors. Few of them were aware that "man's most beautiful artifact," as Art Historian Bernard Berenson called Venice, is sinking beneath their feet...
...this modest success, he would be little noted except for the happenstance that one day a customer bought some unrecorded artifact and asked him to describe the old Pennsylvania farmhouse it came from. Words failed him, and he decided that the only way he could convey his vision was to paint it-even though he had not really put brush to canvas since childhood. To his astonishment, the woman insisted on buying it for $25. With that chance sale...
Sugar Plum Fairy, a is Warhol's first attempt to turn a trade book into a pop artifact. Described as his first novel, it is a package whose surface looks pretty much like any other book-in the same way that one of his Brillo boxes resembles a Brillo box on a grocery shelf. The contents, however, turn out to be an unedited transcript of 24 hours worth of drug-induced schizophrenic chatter tape-recorded by Warhol while following his friends around...
...plot is a plain, old-fashioned story about the raunchy movie world. The hero is "the Baron," Hollywood's No. 1 superstar. He has a "tremendous problem." He is forever being "laughed out of bedrooms," so he asks the boys over an makeup to fashion a substitute artifact for him. He kills a girl with...