Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self-contained. The wonderful music of speech, and the counterpoint of the scenes themselves, should be woven into breathing movements of lyrie felicity and heroic urgency. The company tends to interrupt speech with gesture, but this is a small problem indeed. I wished, above all, for the quiet felicity which allows the poetry to be released in human similitude...
...looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait (Serape). Before the painted canvas, he hung wire plumb lines, which cast shadows on the bathrobes and thus give them a curious kind of life. This tense and intentional counterpoint between hard and soft materials, object and paint, reality and illusion can be traced through virtually all of his works...
...publication, named either Counterpoint or Prometheus, will come out six times a school year and will have an initial circulation...
...speech and action interwoven with the mirror scene, the terrified woman is almost out the door as her man lies dying. But then-"I know you are here," he says, "I hear you. I feel you close. I am not alone." The scene is a bravura display of counterpoint. It states with lapidary density all that the absurdists maintain about the illusions of communication and the reality-or is it even that?-of loneliness and despair...