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Capitalist/Communist issue is dead as a Dodo 40 years. The issue now is overconsumption/militarism! Heary Ratliff...
...color-field, minimalism and so on. By 1975 all the isms were wasms. The '70s were pluralistic; every kind of art suddenly found room to coexist. The idea of a "mainstream," beloved of formalist criticism in the '60s, vanished into the sand: "At last the Dodo said, 'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.' " And although the decade produced its meed of good art, some very interesting indeed, the most striking thing to happen was agreement on a level below the art itself: that modernism, which had been the cultural bedrock of Europe and America...
...image. The computer transforms these dots into binary code and compares what it sees with previously recorded descriptions of various objects. It compares features like perimeter and area, enabling it to recognize and choose among nine different objects. "Ten years from now," says Rosen, "this will be a dodo...
...liquid nitrogen at a temperature of -196° C ( - 320° F) against the day when technology will be ready to reawaken them. Says San Diego's Benirschke: "We could probably get along all right without the rhino, and we're doing all right without the dodo. But do we want to have a world with just cats, dogs, sheep, cattle, chickens and sparrows...
...leads his readers on a fascinating and entertaining field trip through the largest natural history museum of them all--the world. Instead of exhibits, though, Gould presents us with a collection of essays that bring to life the subjects of natural history better than any reconstructed dinosaur of stuffed dodo...