Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ABOUT the only "weaknesses of the human eye" that filmmakers have altered in the last 50 years are those they've corrected with technology-sophisticated lenses, filters, and film stock. Nobody (at all) has made any farther inroads against the realist cine-spectacle, since Vertov, on the level of challenging...
Available Light puts emphasis on the exploitative nature of photography, which isn't a new idea exactly, but which serves an interesting function in the film's formal structure. On the narrative level we are told that financial pressures forced the filmmakers to sell a particular sequence of the photographer...
Moments of effective, surrealistic satire (there is a fine description, for instance, of a man whose house is entirely covered by advertising posters) do not keep Tarantula from being a despairing dead end. In perspective, the book-already a bestseller-should stand less as aesthetic achievement than as a record...
Instead, at Warhol's own insistence, the towering walls of the main gallery are hung, floor to ceiling, with Warhol's fuchsia cow wallpaper, in whose garish and assertive surface the paintings all but drown. A gesture of contempt for his past work? Not quite. This is Warhol...
Wendy Walker's expressive self-portrait, dramatic in its russet, green and purple facial tones, is a forceful and moving expression. David Fitcher's silkscreen of a contorted American flag lying amid a claret and orange landscape ably controls, through an appreciation of the organizing effect of color, both its...