Word: chiseling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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According to the more uninhibited of the new media boys, there is not much future any more to using only such oldfashioned tools as brush, chisel or paint. They find their tradition in the burlap-bag "paintings" of Italy's Alberto Burri, the childlike deformations of France's Jean Dubuffet, and the once shocking collages of Germany's late Kurt Schwitters. Last week these Old Masters were duly represented by Martha Jackson in a special "historical section." The rest of the gallery was given over...
Chips from the Chisel. This is the sort of record that archaeologists love. The mound represented what for many centuries was a well-built stone city of about 10,000 inhabitants. The oldest part seems to have flourished before 2500 B.C. It had no city wall, and a layer of ashes shows that its poor defense posture may have enabled an invader to burn it. When the inhabitants built a new city, they encircled it with a substantial wall...