Friday, August 22, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

David Samila
Susan's Shoe
1968
screenprint
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia


James Rosenquist
The Light That Won't Fail I
1961
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Larry Zox
Orange Time
1965
acrylic on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Larry Zox
Cuban Eights
1965
acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Paul Wunderlich
T.V.
1962
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul Wunderlich
Radierungen
ca. 1963
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul Wunderlich
Nude and Angel
1967
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul Wunderlich
Madame est servie
1968
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul Wunderlich
Head
ca. 1963
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul Wunderlich
Greenhead
1966
lithograph
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Frank Stella
Rabat
1964
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Frank Stella
Harran II
1967
acrylic on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Gordon Smith
Project for Arthur Erikson
1968
screenprint
Museum London, Ontario

Gordon Smith
IV B
1968
lithograph
Museum London, Ontario

Jack Youngerman
Around the Green
1967
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jack Youngerman
City Center Joffrey Ballet
1968
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jack Youngerman
September White
1967
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

HIATUS – The juxtaposition of vowels either in the same word, or, more especially, at the end of one word and the beginning of the next.  At different times, and in different languages, this has been regarded as a beauty and as a defect; but in English it entirely depends upon circumstances whether it is one, or the other, or neither.  For a considerable period – roughly from 1650 to 1780, if not 1800 – it was supposed – without a shadow of reason – that English poets ought to elide one of such concurrents and indicate it only by apostrophe, so that not merely did "the enormous" become "th' enormous," and "to affect" "t' affect," but "violet" was crushed into "vi'let," and "diamond" into "di'mond."  But this has been almost entirely abandoned, though there are still "metrical fictions" on the subject.

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)