Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clarke and Wackerbarth represent two other extremes: Clarke the intellectually artistic, and Wackerbarth the commercially artistic. Previous collaborators on a West German exhibition project, both men share an ideal of photography that demands intellectual as well as purely aesthetic content. The surprisingly copious text was written by William Least Heat Moon (chosen perhaps because his first book was entitled Blue Highways...
...sticker into Oz and her ticket out, the tangible insignia of an intangible fantasy. Capitalizing on this inspiration, Duncan's are symbolically restricted to role-playing and fantasy fulfillment, and his subjects snatched exclusively from the performing arts and inserted into a bare studio. Some of the stars are content to glide on their images: Makarova as a buck 'n' wing ballerina, Marcel Marceau as the eternal mime, and Joan Rivers in one of those flouncy $2,0000 haute couture gowns that on her becomes transformed into WalMart weekend specials...
...photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned in a patrician living room, balanced on an Alaskan canoe, or dumped on Rajneeshian haystack demands that the viewer look at the aesthetic and intellectual content of a medium that is often considered simple substitute for sight...
USING THE LEVERAGE of U.S. investment "constructive engagement" aimed to shove South Africa towards real democracy. But the Reagan administration has been content to leave the "constructive" out of the "engagement." And in an U.S. administration committed first and foremost to stemming, communism in Africa, as elsewhere, and to protecting business interests, it is unlikely that the next four years will see any move toward a forceful, human rights policy toward South Africa...
...Frankie's vocalist. Others see something a little different. Wrote Rock Commentator Simon Frith, after watching tourists in London buy up countless knockoffs of the band's FRANKIE SAY T shirts: "I decided this was the final triumph of the 'new pop,' the eclipse of content by form...