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A 353 CORAL CIRCLE EL SEGUNDO; CALIF. 90245 AREA CODE (213) 322-2430 772-2557 772-2558 craft horizons March/April 1969 Vol. XXIX No. 2 4 The Craftsman's World 6 Our Contributors 8 Letters 10 Choreography of the Object by Norman Loftis 14 F*AI it by Israel Horovitz 16 Mike Nevelson: The Gender of Wood by Wendell Castle 22 The New Weaving by Jack Lenor Larsen 30 The Fabric of Construction by Louise Bourgeois 36 The Potter and His Kiln by Daniel Rhodes 39 Exhibitions 53 Calendar 54 Where to Show The Cover: Detail of "The Principal Wife" by Sheila Hicks, composed of ten elements of linen, silk, wool, and synthetic fibers, spliced and grafted, each element 189" long. For full view see page 32. Exhibited in "Wall Hangings" at New York's Museum of Modern Art, CRAFT HORIZONS coverage of the show is entitled "The Fabric of Construction" (page 30). With the article 'The New Weaving" (page 22), a report on the Stedelijk Museum's parallel show in Amsterdam, Holland, we get a double-barrelled account of the new emphasis being accorded contemporary weaving. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor Patricia Dandignac Editorial Assistant Edith Dugmore Advertising Department Wylie Cumbie Editorial Board .Robert Beverly Hale William Lescaze Leo Lionni Aileen O. Webb Ceramics. Daniel Rhodes Metal Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles— Uli Blumenau Wood .Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding. _ Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1969 by the American Craftsmen's Council. 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Telephone: PLaza 3-7425. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; Kenneth Choriey, VIce-Chalrman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Direc- tor; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fafiarino, Assis- tant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Alfred Auerbach, John L Barlnger, Mrs. Lewis GL Carpenter, Mrs. H. Lansing Clute, Mark Ellington, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, De Witt Peterkin, Jr., William Snaith, Frank Stanton. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada-Mocarskl, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Counts, Trade Guermonprez, Kenneth Shores, Peter Wedland, James Woznlak. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, Includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $2. Second class postage paid at New York-N.Y. and at additional mailing office. The complete content of each Issue of CRAFT HORIZONS Is Indexed In the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, available In public libraries. Book reviews published In CRAFT HORIZONS are Indexed In Book Review Index. Microfilm edition Is available from Universal Microfilms, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. striking white geometric work, "Zinal I," by Roger Bolomey, and The Craftsman's World sculptor Clement Meadmore displayed his 4,000 pound "Upstart" Currently, the joint work of Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely Focus of giant multicolored superwomen "Nanas" and somber black machines can be seen in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park. The Fifth National Conference of the American Craftsmen's Council In Bryant Park, on the Mall, Kenneth Snelson has assembled an exhi- will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (June bition using four large separate aluminum modular units, some 7-11). It will open with the announcement of awards for the ACC's measuring 264" in length and having a 6" diameter. current national competition, "Young Americans 1969," and the re- The latest of the works was Les Levine's "Process of Elimination," sulting exhibition, which will remain on view at the University of which involved the disappearance of three-hundred plastic dis- New Mexico Art Gallery for the length of the Conference. With the posable curves, ten a day, beginning January 22, for thirty days, theme titled "Focus," discussions will include "The Forces that In- until nothing was left. Levine has said, "I feel that art should not fluence the Development of the Craftsman," "The Commitment of be a static object, but a continuous process of elimination." From the Artist to the Twentieth Century," and "New Technology Effect- the street, Levine went to New York University's Loeb Student Cen- ing Craftsmen," with commercial and educational exhibits on display ter, Washington Square South, to demonstrate his second piece of and supplies on hand to offer suggestions for tools and equipment. sculpture, "Body Color." This consisted of fifteen pairs of acrylic Special events will be: an auction of crafts held by the Northeast plastic domes, each pair a different color, which were large enough Region; demonstrations, films, and a presentation of "Craftsmanship: to walk through. "You can choose the color you want to be," he Time Past, Present, and Future" by the Southeast Region; and a five- said. "The varieties of color sensations are almost infinite." state exhibition of contemporary crafts at the Folk Museum in Santa Fe, organized by the Southwest Region. There will be visits and re- ceptions in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, trips to various archaeological Art in Architecture sites of interest, meetings with Navaho Indian craftsmen, with time for shopping, browsing, and sightseeing. A lively feature will be the A mosaic mural of fourteen precast panels weighing forty tons "Promenade," in which conferees will show their work in their and covering more than a thousand square feet was installed rooms at the Collegiate Inn, providing an opportunity to get better during the first week of February around three sides of the new acquainted, swap and sell. Following the conference proper, charter Mathematical Sciences Building on the Westwood campus of the flights to Mexico City, Yucatan Peninsula, Juarez, and San Francisco University of California. Designed by Los Angeles artist Joseph will be available. Group flight rates to Albuquerque from all parts of Young to illustrate "the development of mathematics as a universal the country have been arranged for those planning to attend, and language," the mosaic is of concrete with hand-set marble and glass camp sites will be at the disposal of those who wish to take advan- tesserae ... The new campus of the Rochester Institute of Technol- tage of the low humidity climate and cool nights, while costs for liv- ogy is now complete, with 6,300,000 ferrous-red iron-spot bricks ing and dining accommodations will be nominal. Climaxing the con- made into thirteen academic buildings, walkways, and a dormitory ference will be a barbecue held 10,000 feet above sea level at Sandia complex. Among these is the James E. Booth Memorial Building, Crest. For additional information write: American Craftsmen's Coun- constructed at a cost of ten million dollars and housing the School cil, 29 West 53rd Street, New York 10019. for American Craftsmen. Designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates (Cambridge, Massachusetts), it is four stories high and contains studios and laboratories for the College of Fine and Applied Arts as Sculpture of the Month well as the College of Graphic Arts and Photography. Separate stu- dios are provided for ceramics, metalcrafts and jewelry, weaving Heeding the advice of city planners who feel that one way to give and textile design, and woodworking and furniture design. Art on a neighborhood an identity is through the introduction of a land- campus includes a three-piece bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, a mark, and in an endeavor to accustom the public to seeing art and revolving sculptured work by Jose de Rivera, and murals by Josef life in a new relationship, New York has initiated a program, "Sculp- Albers and Aleksandra Kasuba. Throughout are wall hangings by ture in Environment," integrating sculpture with landscape and Elizabeth Jennerjahn, Ragnhild Langlet, Sheila Hicks, Saul Borisov, architectural design. Conceived by Doris Freedman, director of the Janet Kuemmerlein, Michiko Sato, and Dorian Zachai... New York Department of Cultural Affairs, as New York's contribution to the artist Sydney Butchkes has completed a 48" x 48" hanging sculpture Cultural Showcase Festival held in 1967, the program was so suc- of bonded acrylic sheet for the newly redesigned bar at the Ritz cessful that now, under the auspices of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Carlton Hotel in Boston. Presently, Butchkes is working on a wall a "Sculpture of the Month" plan has been launched exhibiting works sculpture, also of bonded acrylic sheet, for the lobby of the Financial by different artists in various parts of the city. The artist can either Investment Services Building now under construction in Denver, place studio works in urban locations or make works for specific Colorado. sites. According to critic Irving Sandler, "When the artist begins to consider the cultural, social, political, and economic conditions of Here and There the environment in which he will work, these conditions may shape the meanings that the artist desires to express and may suggest new "Pottery Design in the Orient/' a month-long tour (May 6-June 9) of forms." Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Manila will be guided by Kay Perine, Represented thus far in the program have been such noted sculp- manager, Pottery Northwest.