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People 'hanging' bodies, cars and . . . scientists?
By Kevin Cowan
Staff Reporter
Pin-ups, posters or pictures ... you
can learn a lot about someone by what
kind of decorative garb they fasten to
their walls. The posterprint market is
saturated with everything from taste
less glitter to aesthetically pleasing
prints. But, art to one person can be
intellectual rubbish to another. The
point remains what wall clutter is
available in Lincoln.
The new poster child
What used to be the sultry eyes of
Greta Garbo or the bleach-blonde flirt
ings of Marilyn Monroe has evolved into
a genre that leaves nothing to the imag
ination. Heather Thomas, queen of the
posters, and others with no "name" at
all have come to dominate the poster
girl market. Sporting such phrases as
"Power and Poise," "Squeaky Clean"
and "Haulin' Ass" (described as "smut"
by one store manager and "in bad
taste" by another), these air-brushed
Athenas can be found posing next to
various sport cars and other toys of
maturity.
While the complement the over
developed male has his bulging pec
torals plastered on a number of female
walls, the poster girl has the definite
lead in overall sales.
You can find a wide variety of musi
cal memorabilia coating the walls of
music junkies: everything from the
Cure to the Grateful Dead. However,
those are two extremes. The vogue is a
rabid tangent . . . ultra-heavy metal.
Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden and other
"ax-metal" groups hold the pole posi
tion in sales (I was under the impres
sion that Kiss had worn the makeup
thing out . . . guess not.)
More reversions to psychedelia
Following the lead of lava lamps and
the new psychedelic rock, black-light
posters come back to the status quo.
"They've been hard to keep in stock,"
said John McCallum, manager of Dirt
Cheap. The accessory the black
light still costs about $2.
Granted, the lower end of the poster
spectrum is laden with air-brushed
glitter, but you can't limit the scope of
posters to that lot. If you're adverse to
having large pictures of naked people
covering your walls or if you're not a
music junkie, there is still hope.
Patrick Nagel's women (i.e. the cover
of Duran Duran's "Rio" album, sell well
in the more sophisticated posterprint
shops. Nagel's prints cost from $35 to
$625.
Other "yuppie" prints in fashion
include the works of R.C. Gorman,
Southwest Indian prints, the ever-present
contemporary abstract and an un
surprising shift toward traditionalism.
For those who give in to the sudden
urge to redocorate their apartments
and who have more than $10, Anthony's
Gallery and Hangups (both in the
Atrium) can accomodate.
The best seller
Who would you guess. Heather? Motley
Crue? Einstein. Indeed. Of the stores
polled, Einstein seems to corner the
market as the best-selling poster. A
refreshing breath from the rest of the
sludge ... the man had a certain knack
for reality.
So there they are, from glitter rock to
glitter girls to the man who described
the physics of the universe. There are
posters for people with all types of
tastes and all types of bankrolls.
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Ethericke Knight, who began his
literary career as an inmate of the
Indiana State Prison, will present a
public reading of his poetry at 3:30
p.m. Tuesday in Andrews Hall 228.
Knight's first book of poems,
"Poems from Prison," was published
in 1967. He finished his second
book, "Black Voices From Prison,"
while still in prison. The book was
published in 1968, shortly after his
release.
Since his release, and despite
having no academic degrees not
even a high-school diploma Knight
has acquired an international repu
tation. He has been poetry editor for
Motive magazine and a contributing
editor to the University of Missouri's
New Letters. Knight has been
awarded Guggenheim and National
Endowment for the Arts fellowships
and was presented with the Poetry
Society of America's Shelly Award
in 1985.
He has been in demand as a poet-
in-residence and workshop leader
in high schools, .universities, pri
sons and churches, and read at the
Library of Congress in February
1986.
Knight's appearance at UNL coin
cides with Black Awareness Week.
His visit is being coordinated with
the Goodrich Center at UNO and the
Harambee African Cultural Organi
zation at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.
ndian gallery
to open in spoil;
A $25,000 grant from the Woods
Charitable Fund Inc. will make possible
the installation of a Plains Indian
Gallery in UNL's Nebraska State
Museum, Museum Director Hugh
Genoways said.
Genoways said the Woods Fund grant
matches a $25,000 grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts,
which required a one-to-one match to
be implemented.
The gallery, expected to open in
spring 1988, will focus on the Indians'
adaptation to the Plains, not only to
the natural environment but also to the
human and supernatural environments,
Genoways said. Many examples of
Plains Indian art will be exhibited,
including paintings, quillwork and
beadwork. The gallery will include
changing and permanent exhibits.
The Plains Indian Gallery will join
the Lentz Center for Asian Culture as
an important new gallery installed
since 1986.
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