Word: abstracted
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...show grows patchier. Italian design was stellar during this era, but speed-related examples are scarce. A 1969 Olivetti typewriter symbolizes what qualified then for a new-found velocity in communications, while minidresses from Emilio Pucci and Missoni sneak into the show on the dubious grounds of their swerving, abstract patterns. A room dedicated to the flashing graphics of the 1960s Kinetic Art movement serves only to remind us that its finest exponents - Jean Tinguely and Alexander Calder - came from elsewhere...
There have been times when kinetic art - think of Marcel Duchamp's spinning bicycle wheel screwed to a stool, Alexander Calder's abstract mobiles or the self-destructing machines of Jean Tinguely - moved the art world. Recently, though, it has tended to be sidelined as the work of toymakers and garden-shed boffins, finding a warmer welcome in the science museum than the art gallery. That's no bad thing, to judge from "Fantastical Mechanisms - Machines Tell Stories," the biggest exhibition of its kind in Europe since the '60s, on show at the dashingly futuristic Phaeno science center in Wolfsburg...
...actors even came off as smug: during a dramatic tribute to political detainees, one actor grinned upon flubbing a line.Paradise boiled down to a jejune rant against commercialism. It was in Dante’s Purgatory that the play became overtly politically charged. In Hell, a series of perplexing, abstract torture sequences involving puppets and the reading of an interrogation log served to honor the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. While the material addressed was of the utmost gravity, these scenes were slow-paced and excruciatingly drawn-out. What should have been moving was soporific. And for all its intentional weirdness...
...modern cinema, the space of the spectator is bigger.” In “Sylvia,” he concentrates on the conflict between a man and his surroundings. In every film, there is a tension between the fiction and the documentary. It is “abstract...but its intention is reality,” he said. Movie-goers accustomed to detangling “complicated plots” and looking for “psychological information” would have difficulty with Guerín’s work. He reluctantly spoke with the audience...
Katherine E. Lauderdale ’11 is a prospective visual and environmental studies concentrator in Matthews Hall. She wishes abstract expressionist cartooning were better appreciated. You can laugh with her or at her on Thursdays...