Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...references don't stop there, for Chaplin blesses Loren with the wonderful close-ups he reserved for himself in his previous films. It is to Chaplin's credit as a major artist that the film's excellent romantic climax is not a scene but a single close-up of Loren as she watches Brando's boat sail away, thinking he is on it. The shot lasts a full fifteen seconds, and is truly unnerving...
...book contains 14 drawings of "visionary heads" that Blake drew mainly in 1819 and 1820 for a wealthy young artist named John Linnell and Linnell's teacher, John Varley, who later used them as the basis for illustrations for their published treatise on zodiacal physiognomy. But the notes on the margins indicate that Blake sincerely believed he was drawing the faces of Socrates, Solomon, Richard the Lionhearted, Job, John Milton's first wife and the Saxon King Harold from life or, at any rate, from afterlife...
...joint effort of McLuhan and an artist named Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage is unlike anything ever published before. While everyone else continues to write obsolete eye-oriented books, McLuhan has put out the first electronic book. It does not progress in an orderly, sequential manner, developing from an introduction through the main argument and on to the conclusion. Like a television commercial, it is designed to make an impact rather than to tell a story, and because of the extraordinary visual skill with which it was compiled, it succeeds magnificently...
McLUHAN believes that Joyce, because he was an artist, understood the importance of media, and he regards Finnegans Wake as a textbook for the electronic...
Many of the artists in this show are killers -- all but two of the prisons represented are maximum security institutions -- and what is most startling about this exhibit is the number of evenly-wrought, painfully conventional paintings which these men produced. The prison doesn't provide models or try, through instruction, to direct the content of these paintings; the prisoners are left to their own imaginations, and one somehow expects the social outlaw, the man who just couldn't keep down the urge to throw a brick through a window, to be a little less-contained in front...