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...Artist Marcel Dzama must have sensed this strange blend of sweetness and murk, as his drawings for the album’s cover and liner could be viewed alternatively as a morose grown-up’s take on Alice and Wonderland or a child’s fantastic documentation of life under dictatorship. Normally I find album visuals irrelevant at best, annoying and distracting at worst, but somehow these ghoulishly lovely illustrations complement Guero wonderfully, like marginalia to an illuminated manuscript...
It’s Only a Movie is divided into four main parts, each corresponding to a different section of Hitchcock’s cinematic career. Originally trained as an artist and engineer, Hitchcock began in the movie world writing scripts and designing intertitles for silent movies. He was soon directing, and by 1940 was England’s best known director...
Some people say that an artist can’t create his own meaning, that he can only combine pre-existing voices so that they blend and clash in a new way. This so-called “death of the author” is singularly dramatized in The Books’ third album, Lost and Safe, in which the North Adams, Mass. duo takes their signature cut-and-paste sound collage to a new level...
...always become strangely profound. But this leads to the feeling that the songs are merely being overheard, that they are reporting something rather than making any statements—literally so in the case of “Venice,” a jokey play-by-play of an artist painting what seems to be an abstract crucifixion scene (complete with Italian voices and crowd noises...
...Like the movie industry, what many people seem to prize most in video games is what only large corporate bureaucracies at the cutting edge of graphics and special effects innovation can provide. Unlike the movie industry, however, the video game industry was not the inheritor of any previously existing artistic traditions like acting, directing, stage production, dance, or vaudeville. Video games were entirely new, built up from 1’s and 0’s not by artist-creators but by technologist-creators...