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Article: Demolition Job; Artist Nancy Wolf's Dynamite Views of Modernist Architecture
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 21, 1996
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Nancy Wolf's powerful images of cities are not like anything
you've ever seen. At the same time, they are shockingly familiar.
They contain fragments of urban reality, pointedly rearranged:
Vast, hard, treeless plazas. Huge, self-important buildings made of
steel and glass. Boarded-up windows, trash-strewn streets and other
signs of disrepair. Public sculptures. Aimless crowds. Isolated
individuals. Street performers, partygoers, people who sleep in
downtown doorways.
"I'm trying to show architects what it's like to live in what
they've built," Wolf has said, in sharp summary of a quarter-century
of making art. In view of her unsettling messages, the setting for a
retrospective of ...
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Article: William (Bill) Wolf
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);
March 28, 2001 ;
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... ... to the late Andrew and Martha Wolf. He married Marjorie Spitz June 28 ... Marjorie of Midway; a son Bill Jr. (Nancy) Wolf of Lynchberg Tennessee; a daughter ... Kenosha,WI., Brother Ben (Betty) Wolf of Aurora, Colorado; four grandchildren ...
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