Word: detailism
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Broder chided news organizations for transforming celebrities and politicians into journalists, and for focusing more on personality than detail...
These prints are precursors to the later invention of the camera. The appeal of this style to the masses was that, for the first time, everyday people saw artwork in which their life was replicated. Print artists recorded familiar scenes in extreme detail. The market place, the country landscape, the butcher's meat market all are recorded with such accuracy that the viewer's mind dizzies at the intricacy with which lines are drawn. The prints were also used in order to display political or social allegories, much like the political cartoons of today's newspapers...
...little stylistically, but all have the same overall feel. The portraitures appear regal, the frames are often etched in with the figure, the allegorical prints are dramatic because of the contrast given to points of the artist's interest, and the everyday scenes are all recorded in concise detail. What all of these themes possess as motif are their underlying static feeling. These prints are immobile; the figures in them are frozen. Today, a viewer cannot relate to these scenes of the past through the mind and eyes of a 16th century village person, therefore, there is no dynamic between...
Many clubs have Punch Books in which club members comment on the performance of punches at such events. In these books I've seen comments such as, "This guy pulls mad trim, must admit," translating to, "This punch will attract a lot of women, accept him." Other comments detail how "cool" a punch is, who his girlfriend is and other superficial descriptions related to his prowess in attracting women...
...heads of people unacquainted with the machines. Additionally, while information about his family and home life is plentiful early on in the book, later appearances are sporadic, and sometimes seem out of place in the flow of the story. His earlier years through high school are explained in great detail, and the book seems to hurry to a conclusion, glossing over college and his years after graduation...