Word: bazin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of the director in the Bazin-Godard-Truffaut mode of movie analysis is filled in a comparably all-important manner by the singer. This role, to oversimplify by way of introduction, is to personalize unmistakably the final product. More than creating a recognizable style (for in the main, the human voice is inherently distinctive), the rock auteur utilizes his style to transcend his material. The content of the artist's songs is subjugated, and in fact it sometimes becomes difficult to differentiate within the auteur's oeuvre...
...transition from pre-history to future becomes a simple cut from the bone descending in the air to a rocket preparing to land at a space station midway between earth and moon. A classic example of Bazin's "associative montage," the cut proves an effective, if simplistic, method of by-passing history and setting-up the link between bone and rocket as the spectral tools of man, one primitive and one incredibly sophisticated...
...came from as far away as Australia and from such diverse repositories as Windsor Castle and Leningrad's Hermitage Museum. The Louvre cleaned many of its own 37, often revealing an intensity of color never before suspected. Yet, when the Louvre's chief curator of paintings, Germain Bazin, sat down to write his introduction to the catalogue, he still had his doubts. "Will the crowds," he asked, "show an interest in this artist whose biography reveals a modest life, who assassinated no one, who did not commit suicide?" The "crowds" have been flocking to the show...
...Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre, it had been a most unpleasant year. Week after week the press would speak accusingly of the Louvre's "attics," its "cellars" and its "obscure prisons." In these sealed-off rooms, charged the critics, hundreds of masterpieces had lain "buried" to Frenchmen for years. Bazin protested that no museum has room enough to exhibit all its treasures, but there was no silencing the critics. Cried the indignant weekly Arts magazine: "We want to know our national patrimony...
...rooms at the Louvre will be opened up, after having been closed for 15 years for lack of funds Exulted France-Soir last week: "Ther is no more mystery at the Louvre. The Louvre is in the process of becoming a living museum." Sighed a relieved Curator Bazin: "The future beams more serene...