Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
When Genovès washes his paintings in green or brown, it seems as though his lenses were equipped with filters. He also employs photography's "zoom lens." Enlargement shows a fleeing crowd on the left; at the right, the eye zeroes in on one figure spotlighted from the mass. Positive. Negative uses another photographic device, showing a slain black couple on a white field, their arms reaching toward their mirror image, a slain white couple on a black background...
...closeup of human toes to make the point: "The wheel is an extension of the foot." One entire spread is printed in Leonardo-like "mirror writing," and another is set upside down just to show how absurd the whole concept of books can be. Indeed, the authors of this eye-stopping, mind-wrenching whatzis have created the ultimate in non-books...
...shows up outside a magnificently imposing Widener Library, takes Lerner's arm, and leads him away without betraying a flicker of interest in her own action. Usually, there is an obvious gulf (sometimes a mite too obvious) between her and Lerner or between her and the camera's eye. It is achieved by a variety of techniques: camera angles, simple positioning, and just plain props like the bookstore window in her second appearance or the long dinner table of her eighth...
...obvious but successful reminder that her surface can never really be animated or her enigma cracked. She is completely and very dangerously a virgin, whatever she does. The black cowled, nunlike presence which dominates the gothic dining room turns out to be her hooded photograph on a tripod. The eye socket of a black cowled skull in another room is the scareb ring's proper resting place, a fact which informs Hunter's close-ups on her eyeball. The only violence done the lady in the course of the picture is a systematic stabbing of her photograph, a truly shocking...