Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewer to move around it or see it as an object with volume. His sculpture is designed, like painting and drawing, to be viewed from only one position. In one of his earliest works, Saw Head (1933), the over-all visual context is two dimensional, with the mouth and eye as obvious examples of the use of three dimensional form to suggest flat surface and line. Even the more three dimensional features, such as the nose, suggest two dimensional shading rather than full forms in space...
Standing on the terrace of the only marble building on the University of California's Los Angeles campus, the sometime ophthalmologist dedicated the Jules Stein Eye Institute to the cause of preventing blindness. Said London's Professor Norman Ashton: "You have earned the gratitude of many people, but the deepest gratitude will never be expressed-nor can it be. It will be found in the eyes of those who live after us, who drink in the visual beauties of life without fearing the loss of that vision, and who may say, 'It is wonderful...
...facilities for research into the causes and prevention of blindness. The institute's research complex is staffed not only by ophthalmologists, but also by anatomists, physiologists, biochemists, pathologists and a microbiologist. It boasts three costly electron microscopes to permit research to concentrate on the ultrafine structure of the eye. All rooms have closed-circuit television for the staff to monitor patients' activities and check on their safety. Patients who have no useful vision will be able to entertain themselves with talking books and piped music via pillow speakers. For those with some vision, there is color...
Closed-circuit TV lenses are also built into the light fixture over each operating table and connected with the teaching and seminar rooms. Watching with the aid of television's magnifying eye, an unlimited number of students will be able to follow each operation in minutest detail, even in an operating area only an eighth of an inch across...
...very characteristics that most bothered his contemporaries-his lack of glazes, his impetuous brush stroke, the warping of perspective and the often unfinished quality of his work-were daring risks knowingly faced and boldly taken. To savor Manet's triumphs requires a quick, appreciative eye in the presence of the real thing...