Word: contrivedness
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Minimal Man. Unfortunately, Unteleology falls victim to the randomness it preaches, and Arthur eventually returns to the side of the road. His subsequent adventures-including the loss of his other leg-leave him in much the same state as contemporary art. He is a minimal man trying to make more...
Taken merely as a contrived symbol, the star would be only a bit of mys- tical sleight of hand, but Rosenzweig clearly meant it to be a demonstration of both ontological truth and an ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of...
Its practitioners have always claimed that direct cinema's presentation of experience remains faithful to the complexity of experience itself. That faithfulness derives, so the argument runs, from an "innocent" approach to the world, an attempt to capture involuntarily and without predisposition the nature of a chosen subject. Albert denies...
He had few peers when it came to observing human foibles with a kind of wry delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously...
Thus his wooden pieces eight years ago, like Untitled, 1963 (see color page), were abstract, which was nothing new-but their kind of abstraction was. It was peculiarly inert and casual looking. This, it became clear, was because Judd has no interest in "composition"-the play between major and minor...