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Such works faithfully reproduce the characteristics of a camera's-eye view, including the out-of-focus background and prismatic light blurs, but the effect is different from photos and even more so from painted murals. The weaving process, with its interlaced wefts and warps, gives the fabric a subtle play of light and shade and adds the fascination of texture. Hernmarck's tapestries thus add warmth, a reminder of nature, to the sometimes chill corporate setting, enhancing the architecture rather than merely decorating...
WHERE THE PUNK movement differs from that of the Dadas is in the backgrounds of their members. The Dadas were artists dissatisfied with the art form over which they had achieved a reasonable degree of mastery. They were, in a sense, trying to unravel the fabric of society from the inside. The most famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, said "Dada was the extreme protest against the physical side of painting, a metaphysical attitude, a blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were...
...photo essays concentrate on seven designers, among them Miyake, the ebulliently inventive Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo, whose designs demonstrate what Koren calls "irony, image juxtaposition and whimsy . . . the purest, most uncompromising and strongest avant-garde vision." The book also includes chapters of careful observation on history and tradition, fabric design, graphic display and body structure (illustrated with vintage photos of women who dive for fish outside a village east of Tokyo). "I make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos...
...Places in the Heart, is a highly sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative...
...Mozart, frivolous on all concerns save music. As Saleri, F. Murray Abraham creates an ideal counterpart: a composer as measured, reasonable, and altogether average as his rival is extraordinary. Their prickly relationship reaches a moving climax in the film's final minutes, with a scene that mesmerizingly unravels the fabric of admiration and betrayal between...