Word: geometricism
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Cage and Muzak met several months ago when the composer was presented with a thorny problem involving Manhattan's giant new Pan American Building. Sculptor Richard Lippold, renowned for his glittering geometric structures of stainless steel and gold, had been commissioned by the Pan Am Building directors to design...
Serious Weaknesses. McNamara observed -before the Kwajalein test that it would be conducted under "controlled conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In...
Ambassadorial Mission. The two major omissions from his impressive roster (see box) are Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, neither of whom likes to be shown with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward...
On seeing an exhibition of Braque's paintings in 1908. Louis Vauxcelles, the critic responsible for the term Fauves, noted that Braque. "a very bold young man." seemed to reduce everything to "cubes." Soon, the word cubism was a part of art's vocabulary. Picasso had also begun...
Today, as he has been for many years, Braque is fascinated by birds. He has never said exactly what the bird means, but no creature better represents movement and freedom in space. In The Bird and Its Nest, the space is black with mystery, like infinity itself. The viewer'...