Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson also says he is wary of an urban studies concentration spreading itself too thin. Instead, he "would prefer people studying cities within the context of an existing disciplinerather than shopping in a cafeteria and putting things on a tray...
...material they shoot, they don't even take the trouble to punch a little action and detail into it. In visual direction this means the old Neo-Realist aesthetic, that looking at events in the exterior world has a certain necessary validity, is misapplied in a fiction-film context-so that it becomes sufficient to let the camera run in the barren studio set. This discourages work on the images themselves. The structure of a frame composition used to have some meaning in Hollywood. Nowadays shots refer to objects and people without conferring order on their spatial relations. That...
...reason why the marathon works so well as a context for American sickness is the ferocity with which director Pollack has depicted it. Some shots-the faces of the tortured contestants as they run two "derby" races during the marathon, a juxtaposition of Sarrazin and a trashcan with a surreal beachscape, the reflection of Susannah York's delirious face in a shower head-knock you over with sheer force. The depression-era detail (posters for Grand Hotel and band music like "The Best Things in Life are Free") and the editing (often utilizing sound cues such as sirens and gunshots...
...attempts to simulate the cathedral, but the actual installation stages the art in a contemporary set. In darkened rooms, spotlights define the sculptures. Glass cases, descending from the ceiling like columns, contain the small works. Unlike paintings, aptly suited for museums, everything in this exhibition stands out of its context...
...step into a "medieval world" in the exhibition at the Metropolitan. The emptiness of visual and historical context pushes you away from the works of art. The museum uses contemporary technology to try to fill the gaps of the medieval environment by running a movie, which explores the buttresses and pinnacles of Chartres Cathedral. Close color shots of the faces of saints carved high on the walls give an unprecedented view, totally different from old gray photographs. The camera lets you see the sculpture as close as the sculptor did; yet not as a viewer walking through the church centuries...