Word: eadweard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worked at Yellowstone with the department's surveyors. As a project, America 1976 is heavy with reminiscence of the 19th century, when the language of sublimity was formed from the raw material of landscape by such artists as Moran, Frederick Church and Albert Bierstadt and the indomitable photographers (Eadweard Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, William Jackson and the rest) who lugged their brassbound cameras thousands of miles to make documents of a nature that had scarcely been imagined, let alone spoiled, by man. The big difference, however, is that 19th century American topography had a use and was conceived...
...Metropolitan Museum's current show, "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974," testifies to his success in that haughty project. When Bacon was first talked of in England 25 years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from...
Wise, who teaches English at Andover, says that he was led to sequences through his work with film--and that seems to be the source of his problems. Film is, understandably, closely linked to the sequence. Eadweard Muybridge, whose photographs of animal locomotion were the first that could be termed sequences, was simply trying to do what film could before film had been invented. And the montage techniques which the sequence employs have no more important source than Eisenstein's pioncer writings on film...
Bacon's figures, in their blurred, spastic postures, relate to the work of early still photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, or art reproductions, movie stills, news flashes. Personality, existence itself, glints like a fish in dark water and is gone. Bacon is a singular draftsman, but his drawing has practically no descriptive function-it serves, instead, to tally a sum of distortions...