Craft Horizons NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1969 $2.00 When You're Through Playing Games, Invest BILLANTI CASTING COMPANY 64 West 48Th St
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DEPT.CH Ask for Leclerc g SMELTING & our free Industries VW/WWl, REFINING CO., INC. pamphlet. P.O. B0X:267. 1712 Jackson St. P.O. Box 2010 Dallas, Texas 75221 118 Broadway P.O. Box 1298 San Antonio. Texas 78206 CHAMPLAIN. N.Y 12 919 craft horizons November/December 1969 Vol. XXIX No. 6 4 The Craftsman's World 6 Letters 7 Where to Show 8 Countercues iü 10 Calendar 12 Books 14 MaijaGrotell -by Jeff Schlanger 24 The Johnson Collection. .by Robert Hilton Simmons Objects: USA 52 Exhibitions The Cover: "Opera Coat" by Marilyn Pappas (Florida), framed wall hang- ing of fabric collage and stitchery, 62" x 45", in the Johnson collection. The story on the unique traveling exhibition, "Objects: USA," premier- ing at Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institu- tion (October 2-November 16), is reported by Robert Hilton Simmons (page 24). Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor. —Patricia Dandignac Editorial Board .Robert Beverly Hale Edith Dugmore Advertising Department- -Aileen Sedgwick Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale 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 Crafts Council, 44 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Telephone: Circle 6-6840. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board: Kenneth Chorley, Vice-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Execu- tive Vice-President; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarino, Assistant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angell, Alfred Auerbach, John L. Baringer, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, Sarah Tomerlln Lee, De Witt Peterkln, Jr., William Snaith, Dr. Frank Stanton, W. Osborn Webb. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada- Mocarski, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormiey. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Counts, Sam Maloof, Donald Reitz, Ramona Solberg, Peter Wend- iand. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $2. For change of address, give old address as well as new with zip code number; allow six weeks for change to become effective. Ad- dress unsolicited material to the Editor-in-Chief, CRAFT HORIZONS, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Material will be handled with care but the magazine assumes no responsibility for it. Manuscripts will be returned only If accompanied by self-addressed stamped envelope. 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 Micro- films, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. The Craftsman's World New Publications World Crafts Council Founded three years ago to ". develop an effective collabora- tive relationship between artists and engineers and scientists in the industrial environment . ." E.A.T., or Experiments in Art and Our last column, in the September/October issue (which was also Technology, has begun publication of a newspaper, Tec/ine, the our first), contained news of actions past, present, and future, and first issue of which featured contributors running from Vladimir gave a clear idea of the growing range and scope of the WCC. Tatlin writing on "Art Out Into Technology 1932," to John Cage As this is being written, James Plaut leaves for Prague via Paris. with "Art and Technology 1969," from Naum Gabo explaining I leave in three days, and, after joining Noel White in London, his "Kinetic Sculpture," to Niels Young exposing "Standing Loops go on to Prague via Warsaw. Margaret Merwin Patch will go of Limp String." Published by Billy Kluver and edited by Julie directly to Prague from New York. Prague, and its castle of Mora- Martin and Susan Munshower, Techne has no advertising save vany, will be the scene of long deliberations on many problems for blocks with either a symbol or a company's name. A section by the twenty or so European leaders who will be gathered there. entitled "Projects" is just that, with ideas of special technical Afterwards, Plaut will go to New Delhi via Iran, Margaret Patch interest listed, while those readers wishing to work on them are and I will stop in Bucharest and Budapest on the way. In New expected to contact the paper which will in turn put the person Delhi, the leaders of eleven Asian countries will talk for eight days or persons in touch with the originator of the problem. In one on their future involvement with WCC activities. Then Plaut will of the issues, Robert Rauschenberg set forth notions on how to return to New York via the Orient, with Margaret Patch and me rehabilitate neighborhoods culturally; and Carl André submitted going via Istanbul and Greece, and in between I will stop off in a diagram of a one-ton steel ball set in motion on a one-mile Venice for a three-day UNESCO meeting of the Commissions curve, presenting the questions, "How long will the ball released Nazionale Italiana. remain in cyclic motion? What is the optimum arc for longest These details are cited so that our readers may know the ex- period? How to reduce friction? Stresses? Materials? Costs?" tent of WCC involvement. What are the motives which animate Free to E.A.T. members, single copies are $.25 and may be obtained this increasing WCC coverage in so many lands? What will these from: Experiments in Art and Technology, 235 Park Avenue South, traveling officers from headquarters tell the delegates from Ceylon New York, New York 10003 . Poet and CRAFT HORIZONS or Thailand or the Philippines? Before discussing the many or- contributor Jonathan Williams has had a new collection of 158 ganizational problems of elections, education, conferences, publi- poems published, along with his own personal notes. Entitled An cations, marketing, and exhibitions, they will tell them the fol- Ear In Bertram's Tree, the book may be ordered for $7.50 a copy lowing. from The University of North Carolina Press, Box 510, Chapel No organization can originate or grow unless there is a basic Hill, North Carolina 27514. And The Maryland Institute, College need for it to do so. The germ of the idea for an international of Art has published two portfolios of Williams's poetry with organization in the crafts evolved because of the need for in- graphic realizations by artists of the Institute faculty. The port- formation on what was happening in the crafts in the rest of the folios, in limited editions signed by the author and artists, are world by the national American Crafts Council; so the national The New Architectural Monuments of Baltimore City, at $125, and conference of 1964 in New York was organized as an international Six Rusticated, Wall-Eyed Poems, at $35, and are available from one. Attending were some 250 representatives of 46 countries who The Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1400 Cathedral Street, formed the nucleus of the present WCC. Baltimore, Maryland 21201, Attention: John Stoneham . The At once, however, it was obvious that worldwide craftsman- Unicorn, a catalog of books for craftsmen with more than six- ship needed a greater goal than that of information, though that hundred titles listed, has been printed by Helene and Seymour was, of course, important and still continues as a fundamental Bress. The titles cover weaving, spinning, and dyeing, with short service to others through the field of the arts. There is a definite reviews, but should one have difficulty obtaining a book, or seek feeling growing at every Congress that, through the friendship information, he might contact: The Unicorn, Books for Craftsmen, made which may revolve around a pot or a hanging, one more Box 645, Rockville, Maryland 20851 .