Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appiah said he hopes to formalize Lee'sappointment in time to list the class in the1992-93 course catalog...
Appiah said he hopes to formalize Lee'sappointment in time to list the class in the1992-93 course catalog...
John C. Bonifaz, a third-year law student, called the decision a "real student victory," but said the proposed amendment to the catalog has outraged the student community...
...died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds. If one wanted an example of how art history gets trivialized by sheer overpopulation...
...illusionism. Usually it's the eye-fooling that wins. The comment of a great American Modernist, Marsden Hartley, is cited by one essayist: "In Harnett there is nothing to bother about, nothing to confuse, nothing to $ interpret . . . there is the myopic persistence to render every single thing singly." The catalog protests this, pointing to the stories that underlie the conglomerations of things in his still lifes, which do indeed provide something to interpret. But was this what Hartley meant? In fact, no. He saw what is plainly true -- that in Harnett there is little imaginative dimension beyond the winsome, rebus...