Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention to detail that modern art neglects is evident in David's "The Death of Socrates." Both Ingres and David--to name a few neo-classicists--present us with paintings that stagnate: the subject, object and therefore the motivation is frozen. This immobility contrasts the modern artist's attempt to break stagnation by re-vitalizing contours...
...film moves to two different rhythms. The first half is a mambo--kinetic, ribald, dazzling. The brothers' heads spin with the newness and excitement of America. Director Arne Glimcher takes us inside the Palladium, the greatest dance hall of the day, which he recreates with electrifying, tactile wealth of detail...
BARCELONA by Robert Hughes (Knopf; $27.50). The biography of a city of rebels and craftsmen, home of the first submarine and once the world capital of anarchism, as told in erudite prose and dazzling detail by TIME's veteran art critic...
...Sarah is critical this year more than ever, because we have a young defense. I also value her off the field leadership. She is a detail person, and follows up in a lot of ways people don't always see," said Kleinfelder...
...canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither...