Word: dimensionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the metaphysics, the religious, the philosophical and the pathetic lurks another dimension of the graffiti artists' world. It's the world of the inane, or, as one graffiti artist wrote, "This desk is getting looney."
And of course there are the dark images of the Iranian fiasco: the President's men skulking around, with cake and Bible and guns, on ventures so goofy as to seem unhinged; the tablets of Valium that Robert McFarlane swallowed. The Iran affair destroyed Reagan's nimbus of immunity, subverted...
...major difference from the Mad Max kind of two-dimensional role--I saw this guy as having a lot more dimension and a more real approach to life, and a conflict inside himself which he resolves more completely in the end...I think you have to be different. I think in those films he's seen as normal--it's normal behavior for that world. In this it is not, it's abnormal...
Reagan created a mythic world in the afternoon and gave it moral dimension at night. He wasn't so much describing reality as making a point. That is pretty much what he has been doing ever since. He denies that Hollywood marriages can't last as he is being divorced...
The avant-garde of abstraction shot itself into outer space several years ago. Stella believes that exploring the third dimension has freshened his art, and more power to him. But a reader would have as much chance of finding the salvation of modern art in Working Space as in the...