Word: contrivedness
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The Question of God, as might be expected of any book that tries to solve the most largest questions in a mere 244 pages, runs the risk of feeling contrived. From time to time, for example, Nicholi attempts to make the comparisons and contrasts too clear. In the biographical background...
And Kit has suffered the worst of high-school horrors. Crowley assails Kit with everything he can think up: a criminal passion for someone too close for comfort, a teenage pregnancy, an attempted suicide by slitting of the wrists. This is hyperbole taking itself seriously: Kit is almost a parody...
The turntable use on “Viva Knievel” is breathtaking and breathless, riding a fat, reptilian bass. The Baldwins show they’re down with scratching’s hip hop origins with the only-slightly-contrived sounding “Urban Tumbleweed,?...
While Johnson’s collages are far more dense and not nearly as easily decipherable as Bergstein’s lucid imagery, his prints are oddly engrossing for their experimentation with mixed elements. Pencil crayons applied to the Mylar surface produce a visible texture identical to pastels and the...
For the opening of his current show at the Sackler, Mel Bochner: Photographs 1966-1969, curator Scott Rothkopf engaged the artist in a witty dialogue that illuminated the conceptual motivation of his photographs. Bochner is an influential and ground-breaking figure in the post-minimal and conceptual art movements. Although...