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[[Heading]] AF May 64
[[Column 1]] Arakawa cont...
plete reversal of Duchamp's anxiety to free himself from the limitations of "taste" as an esthetic orientation.

Much 20th-century art, like poetry, utilizes a grammar to express the atmosphere of a concept, the feeling that an artistic effort is more readily communicable at an almost subliminal level of perception. The premise is that a specific understanding of the nomenclature should be unnecessary. Ducahmp's "Bride" doubtlessly expresses a mood, and one has no doubt of its monumental, metaphysical tensions. Yet for all its awesome intensity, its specific meaning is made clear only through frankly "literary" keys. Specifically, these keys are often found within the title of the work itself, or in the fortunate existence of things like Duchamp's "Green Box," or in the actual conversations with the artist.  Another example, to illustrate the device of literary translation, is the sculptor H. C. Westermann who, through the titles or actual words stamped into the surface, makes his intention absolutely clear. Arakawa's keys are found in his titles, for the most part: "The Hook Lives Near the Ocean; The Comb is so Attracted to the Hook that it Runs to Meet it.  They Touch - and the Butterfly Appears." The viewer now has to translate the title.   C.W.
Claire Wolfe

GROUP SHOW. David Stuart Galleries:  A heterogeneous assortmnet of works by thirteen well-known names, including three bronzes by Emerson Woelffer and ceramic plates by Peter Voulkos. Ranging from such decorative whimsy in oil as Edward Newell's "Pink Pissy Cat," to "Untitled," a satisfactory drawing with monotone wash by John Altoon, the display is unsettling, as the over-all effect is esthetically shocking, emphasizing teh bizarre.
Dennis Hopper's "Presto," photo print technique with a live, working metronome attached is a sample, as are Antony Berlant's construction paintings - a pink body shape wearing real black lace panties and a stuffed black bra enclosed in blood-red canvas drapery. The other, "Janice," a veritable arboretum composition of a black shape against a chintzy background, wearing of course, flower pattern panties and flowery stuffed bra.  His "Camel Sandwich" is an assembly of cigarette ad assortments with a blonde girl child eyeing you over a sticky sandwich, which should make everyone stop smoking immediately.
Emerson Woelffer's "Reflections and Black Hands," is an upside-down, over-sized apple-shape painted in French blue with real black pigment handprints. As the field of art has been invaded by every contrived, deliberately [[Column 2]] bizarre statement,

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