Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHINA-WATCHING has always been as much art as science. In the early 20th century, China's splendid culture and baffling style convinced observers that understanding the Chinese meant first penetrating an "inscrutable" facade--empathizing with some elusive oriental essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed to fit China into the categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts...
Stageberg romped home in first place with a seventy-yard lead over Holy Cross ace Art Dulong. He was followed in close order by Pitt's Jerry Richey, Villanova's Dick Buerkle, Yale's Frank Shorter, and Villanova's Tom Donnelly before Potteti opened the Harvard scoring...
AMIDST the plastic flora and fauna of Disneyland, a small and inconspicuous pavilion called The Art of Animation offers interesting lessons in cartoon esthetics. The literal nature of Disney's imagination extended past content into form, and the realistic movement in his animation enabled him to apply classical film technique to the product of his studio. The Disneyland display, a series of museum pieces and classic film technique to the product of his studio. The Disneyland display, a series of museum pieces and classic frame blow-ups, led to a projected sequence from one of the full-length cartoons--Sleeping...
...overall design effect is not, as the Beatles have implied in interviews, the brilliance of Edelmann's concoctions, but the pervasive atmophere of warmed-over Milton Glaser. His Signet Shakespeare cover figures, Eye Magazine poster art, and advertising lay-out landscapes abound with stifling frequency, serving as the film's only visual leveller. The film purports to be innovative but is in reality a digest of today's kickiest commercial art on sale in various and provocative forms...
...take the Beatles seriously, we should at least face a possibility that the kind of animation we want to see accompanying their songs resembles the best of Vanderbeek or Lamb or the pure and magnificent computer art recorded with increasing frequency on film--not necessarily the ravishing Alice in Nighttown that this vast assortment of writers, animators, and artists are offering us currently at the Beacon Hill...