Word: pane
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...woman was the victim of a new type of environmental blight: indoor pollution. By caulking seams, using multi-pane windows and packing walls with insulation, building owners can halve fuel needs for heating and cooling. But the saving comes at a price: seepage of fresh air from outside is so sharply reduced that pollutants from the building itself can accumulate to dangerous levels...
There are debts to Max Ernst in the early collages of the '30s, and more subtle references-as in a dialogue between equals-to Marcel Duchamp in the boxes; sometimes Cornell would crack the glass panes that protected his images, in homage to the cracks in Duchamp's Large Glass. But the effect was much more violent, since-in a piece like Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943-it suggested the rupture of a sanctuary, an attack upon Eden. The glass pane of Cornell's boxes, the "fourth wall" of his miniature theater, is also...
...know that you're probably thinking, 'Who gives a damn!,' but since everyone else is writing his own opinion, I'll write mine too. I'm Black, but when I look in the mirror or at another human being, I see a clear window pane with two eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair, two ears and two eyebrows. A little of the environment is reflected through that pane, but the only way that I can really identify that pane is by the way that the eyes, nose, mouth and ears act. I feel sorry for those of you who feel...