Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...
Indeed, some of her best pieces hardly become "art" at all. Hangup, 1965-66, is a rectangular frame, "tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...Breuer made the houses grow so naturally out of the sod, how he cantilevered staircases and, above all, how he met the needs of occupants. In some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters. Hardly a small modern house now exists in the U.S. that does not owe some debt to Breuer's sensitivity to human habit...
Younger women notables include Naomi Savage and Judy Deter Savage's "St. Brigid Passion Week becomes a spiral of hide and seek with a black robed, virgin-like bust appearing in whole and in cut sections against greyish-white rectangular backgrounds that overlap and revolve around the center. She takes a negative and pasts up a college of this repeated image. For her, this black shape becomes an icon, indestructible, despite efforts to cut it up and change its positions...
...tracery of Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations of communities like Germantown, to the present sprawling conurbation. It diagrams the changing patterns of ethnic distribution. The old Irish, Russian and German neighborhoods have largely dispersed; only the Italians in south Philadelphia...