Show ' - - - - - - 'm0 riliMOIMI401 inages 41411111Nit - 4441401144M- 44114411"n1 4 (' ' ''' 1 IF 44 - I - ' 1 ! 1 I ti 1' r- - 1 1 i 1:t 'r : I '” 1 I -- C 5'A I 4 : - ' - '' 0 t i t !' ' 4- -- : 1 ' 1 1 t: t 1 - t- 1 1 - L - 1 ) - : III 1 :1" ' 't 41 Z r '- 't: 1 i :" ' -: ' ''4:4- - (I r4:) i 0- ''' I - 1 O A64 ) ! ' '' ) kitA klsws? 4 I t 1 1—-- A Akt t t :' - 4'ke--1: It t:-1 - i ZALWMAN "EROS OF FLIGHT" by Gwen Lux was fashioned out of fine steel so that the birds would flutter in the wind 1 t: t - 1::: r:- -- 'AN ‘1 I - 44 t r -:- killi'v - : : : 1 r - : tI t i " " t ' - ' - 4 - 11 A ' t'i I-- 7' 7 t " — I ''' : 1 1 : if 1 ' '1 Ii 1 CLITITIR ' tx71 1 r: ' : 40' ' ) tzt r' 1'' ' -4 '' -1 94et0- -- - -or 0 do W -- - k7-- -k — 1 '' 1 i 'IN k -- 4 rt - - ‘ r:-- f ' ---I ' i 1- w " A ': it - - t 1 i I - t 4 ' 4 (See Front flver) A Detroit shopping center sets a surprising art style Z j a "minium "NOAH" by Uy Saarinen dominates Fouréain court — - 2 rriWENTY-FIV- years E " a 'time by ruling ago US Customs a official sculpture But 13 examples of this most rarefied art forth mostbarbed-wir- e ly the bristling praying-manti- s type have been strewn through the 161 acres of shops gardens and plazas work has become a bestA replica of a selling souvenir item A restaurant uses photographs of the sculpture on its menus- - Shoppers identify various areas of the center with its art "Meet me at the Peacock Terrace" they say (The peacock by Arthur Kraft is a network of bronze rods welded together with an acetylene iorch) provoked that Modernist Constantin Brancusi's "Bird In Space" a plecp-O- f bronze vaguely resembling a fivefoot-long and so had to pay a tariff cigar wassk Since that " ruling (subsequently reversed) what has happened to art taste in America Constitutes a revolution A good illustration of the surprising sophistication the U public lur developed is shown on this page The huge Northland Shopping Center outside Detroit designed to serve 15 million people a year with the latest in marketing codvealences might seem last place in the world for modernist art a a the :- soil -' to 1t1 ipga L — 1111 ' IL TEI - - g r - THE art was the idea of architect Victor Gruen He says the public's warm response is due to the fact that the sculpture injects "an emotion element" into the gigantic $20000000 project The one condition Gruen laid on the six artisti chiefly of the Midwest commissioned to execute models for theTroject was that their work he light and airy He wanted no big dramatic themes or uplirting allegories He needed pieces he told them that would be modern "but fun to look at" His orders have been followed to the letter Not even Gruen could have foreseen the trouble mothers would have dragging children off a big stone bear by Marshall Fredericks (see cover) Chances are even that the crusty customs official — EMILY GENAUER of 1929 would enjoy this art IN t 12-in- ch a - ft N-- - 7 ft I : 7 - - - : - tr - -- 7- ' ' - -- - ' 7: ' - ' 'Is - ''' - lb --- - - - - cANARr - :7: - is - - - by Arthur Kraft - - ' - T --- - "CAT AND -- "sun sum and Miss Lux 1 11 ---- 4 - : -- : - 1 |