Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boorstin's basic complaint is scarcely original: the high-speed production and reproduction of words, sounds and pictures -portentously labeled the "Graphic Revolution"-have blurred reality and encouraged a plethora of mere images. Increasingly, he charges, institutions as different as Harvard University and the Container Corp. of America are concerned more with manipulating their images than with achieving their ideals...
...some day win a Nobel Prize. She owes her newfound status almost exclusively to European film makers, a fact that illuminates the general difference between films made by Hollywood and films made by Europeans. The difference is a matter of maturity and honesty. In Europe, for example, realism means graphic truth; in Hollywood it means sordidness. Romantic fantasy, in Hollywood, means juvenile sentimentality. Europeans know how to dream better than that...
...show at the Sidney Janis Gallery is a small retrospective; the one at the David Anderson Gallery concentrates on graphic works. Different as they are, the exhibitions eloquently recall Gorky's tortured perfectionism. At the Anderson Gallery there are six studies for one oil painting, each showing some refinement that Gorky made of its predecessor. The Janis exhibition, though incomplete, shows what a tireless experimenter...
...QUARRY (162 pp.)-Friedrich Duerrenmatt-New York Graphic Society...
...meticulous grilles of Piet Mondrian look as if anyone with a ruler and a paintbox could have done them. The delight they inspire as design has strongly influenced architecture and graphic advertising. If. upon familiarity, they now seem somewhat sterile, they were no mere gimmickry but the deadly serious result of a lifetime of intellectual search for the truth beyond the surface of reality. Seldom has an artist traveled a more complex route to achieve such striking simplicity...