Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, at several times during the book, the author repeats himself or speaks in such detail about the specific actions or eccentricities of an individual family member that the narration is slowed and for a time loses sight of the larger picture that the stories are combining to form. These difficulties, however, can be overcome fairly easily...
...dean said that a small advisory committee including students and house officials will convene to discuss prospects in more detail and, later, to possibly speak with some serious candidates...
...view, one sees the summation of Diebenkorn's admiration for Matisse's way of leaving the picture with the traces of its own making. This reworking leaves an impression of curiosity, not indecision. The paintings are broadly brushed and then "tuned" by passages of fine, but not fidgety, detail. The color, glazed or discreetly scumbled, is luminous--now diffuse like sea fog, now hard and bright as direct sun. The Ocean Parks radiate an Apollonian calm, an uncoercive authority. They are the creations of a man with a fully integrated temperament, candid but not showy. There is nothing else quite...
...Fogg), like the other well-chosen and well-placed illustrations, is only a small black-and-white reproduction. The loss of color is lamentable--Dancers, Pink and Green loses its panache in gray--but the lack of clarity in the reproductions is more worrisome. Benfey often refers to minute details, such as an arm painted over but still visible, but even much squinting may fail to reveal the detail in the reproduction...
...book's design, it obscures its ostensible subject. "This is a Degas we do not know well," Benfey notes of the not yet very famous man who stayed with the Mussons, and Benfey does not help us know this Degas any better. What Benfey instead introduces with his dense detail is a city peculiarly conducive to creativity. By turns menacing and nurturing, the New Orleans of the 1870s lurks behind every knotty relationship and every political machination of Degas' relatives, behind every story of Chopin's or Cable's and behind many of Degas' works...