Word: contentment
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...Metrobooks/Friedman Fairfax has published "World Trade Center" by Peter Skinner (April), an unusually attractive coffee table book that memorializes the Twin Towers - not only through its content but also in its tall and narrow shape...
...exploration of the potential for books to be a physical and artistic enterprise, as opposed to their traditional literary purpose. If there is one underlying theme to the whole exhibit, it is perhaps to examine—and turn on its heels—the relationship of cover and content, of what is seen and what is read...
...latter matters far more. Rarely will a reader reject the words of the Iliad or War and Peace because of an ugly cover, and rarely will an even remotely judicious reader buy a book based solely on pretty cover art. In this show, even when the books do have content, the “reader’s” attention is inexorably drawn towards the visual aspects of the presentation—a tendency of which the artists seem fully aware, and even to embrace. McCarthy, for instance, says in her artist’s statement that...
...quite intriguing and well-executed. Davidson’s books tends to focus, rather self-consciously, on themes from art history and architecture, while McCarthy treats “history, religion, mythology, and the natural world,” and Shambroom’s sculptures explore the content-form relationship described above...
...suggest that this is, horrors, a tearjerker. Rather, the film balances its overtly emotional content with light-hearted montages of baseball practice, gentle moments in diners and bars and funny scenes with kids (and such cute kids they are…). It thus achieves a kind of natural, comforting rhythm, bespeaking the thoughtful collaboration behind...