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While the rest of the economy suffers depressions, the art market soars. At an auction last week in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, buyers spent $5,852,250 for 72 Impressionist and modern paintings, another $906,375 for 19th and 20th century sculpture. The biggest sale was Van Gogh...
There was a pair of old loafers, worn within a day of falling apart and mounted as casually as if their owner had just stepped out of them. And a green suit, stiff with splattered paint and age, its trousers nothing but ribbons. And bathroom sinks, garden tools, paint brushes...
Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of...
One day in 1964, Dine saw an advertisement for a bathrobe in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he explains, "but when I saw it, it looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait...
EXPLORATION looks like an exhibit of fifteen works by artists who use modern technology instead of brushes and canvas. But when Gyorgy Kepes, director of the M. I. T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies (the show's sponsor) discusses it, Exploration becomes a set of diagrams describing ways artists might...