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...Cubi XXVII, Smith's last work. A commanding construction of stainless steel, its open central square draws the visitor toward it, then past it up the ramp. Thus, instead of going up by elevator and sauntering downward-as he does with most Guggenheim exhibitions- he finds himself climbing upward, approximating the demanding path that the sculptor pursued...
...upward pilgrimage begins with Smith's earliest wood and wire constructions. Already evident is the haunting and haunted poetic imagery that informs even the starkest of his mature works. It was while he was studying painting at New York's Art Students League that Smith discovered the first installments of Finnegans Wake in transition and became fascinated with the parallels between poetry and the visual arts. A crudely constructed, painted Head of 1932 translates into visual terms the kind of controlled ambiguity that Joyce used: its profile simultaneously suggests a dancing woman...
...stances have sort of become my trademark," she observes, then demonstrates on her Beverly Hills diving board. There is the Amazon Triumphant (Raquel with feet wide apart and arms overhead, embracing the sun). The Virgin Victim (Raquel crouching, head tilted upward, flinching). The Mistress of James Bond (Raquel with legs apart and hands on hips, eyes smoking...
...hernia is a rupture, or break, usually in a muscle, that permits an organ to protrude through it. A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening at the point where the gullet goes through the diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest, while a larger one will let part of the stomach slide up (hence the synonym "sliding hernia" for a hiatal hernia). In such cases, some of the stomach's acid contents flow back up into the gullet, causing irritation and inflammation (esophagitis...
...Frankenthaler's Blue Head-On. At the same time, a steely discipline is built into the picture. After years of developing her eye, she has found that many pictures normally "work" better with darker colors at the top. A sedate, woodsy green thus sets a lid on the upward rushing blue genie. Helen Frankenthaler is not interested in emotions for their own sake. Despite the modernity of her style, she is an heiress to a tradition that reaches back beyond Pollock; she uses themes as a kind of reality on which to base an esthetic experience. Her ambition...