Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...There were great philosophers before Jung and Freud but they couldn't put it down in books because there were no books," Bly said. "So they had to invent a story so superb in its detail that it's remembered for 2,000 or 3,000 years...
Finally, at the national conference on financial aid this July, the new IM will be unveiled, in Hudson's words, "in all its glory and excruciating detail...