Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concede that many current state statutes are so vaguely drawn that they do not give clear notice of what is banned. The court, therefore, was careful to toughen the standards for anti-obscenity laws in an effort to prevent imprecise or overly extensive statutory language. Only "works which depict or describe sexual conduct" can be outlawed, said the court, and that conduct "must be specifically defined by state...
These films depict, after all, nonsensical, episodic, comic sex -- hardly the stuff of "adult" life. I can't imagine what kind of perversity or anti-social behavior they could generate except, perhaps, an occasional fist through the ticket-window in blind rage at the exorbitant prices charged to see them...
Perhaps Hodler's clearest claim to the recognition so long denied him consists in the series of bluish, highly structured landscapes which lead directly to the rough, brightly colored landscapes of German Expressionism. These depict jagged mountains or seething lakes and are constructed according to Hodler's notions of "parallelism," as he called his method of discovering parallel and reflective patterns in nature...
This is Vietnam-America Friendship Week. These two films serve the Week's purpose well. They do not discuss Vietnam's political strategy, or its economy, or its social structure. They depict its people: laughing, singing, screaming, mourning. They sketch faces on a people our government would have us believe was our enemy. By portraying humanity, they fulfill a preliminary condition for friendship...
What De Antonio's film fails to do above all is to provide through the interviews discussion of the reasons that artists have chosen to make their paintings this way. And to have done that would also have meant to depict the painters themselves in greater depth...