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Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenan, | Title: Antebellum Christmas With Jeff in the Monticello Graveyard | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Dine's works during these years are theatrical and iconoclastic. Paintings like Black Bathroom #2, in which a china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Themes in Progress | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

When Dwight Eisenhower began to paint by the numbers, thousands of aging Americans who had harbored a secret conviction that they were latent Rembrandts set up easels and began to daub burnt umber and indigo onto keyed spaces of their canvas kits.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Not Laws but Inspiration | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

In the general's land, illusion -along with cold steel and bribery-is one of the foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Numero Uno | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...dramatics. Watkins wants us to absorb the colors and emotions of the affair direct from Munch's work, particularly from one, finished in 1893 and full of sinister sensuality, showing a woman leaning close over a man. The painting is titled Vampire. The director dwells on the haunted canvases with a sort of driven fascination, the way another film maker might linger over a scene of lovemaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shades of Madness | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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