Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real meaning at all in the face of such horrors as the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The spiritual bankruptcy that has turned Toomey's great-niece and 1400 other flower-children into drones eager to be manipulated by a murderous peace-and-granola martinet is a similarly graphic example of the same twentieth-century morality that allowed the Nazi tragedy to take place...
...York Graphic; 249pages...
Caldwell is willing to sacrifice some of the Shakespeare text for pageantry and graphic effects. The guests at the feast where Banquo's ghost appears are seated on one side of a long refectory table resembling the one in Da Vinci's The Last Supper, thus carrying resonances of sacrilege...
...works in the ICA show reveal the formal similarities of much Dadaist graphic art to contemporary examples. The Dadaists experimented with the nature of graphic communication, mixing typefaces and altering size and scale. Ernst's poster "Dada Zeigt!" (Dada Wins!) uses assorted lettering with unrelated symbols--a rope, a bed, a cow, a housewife. The asymmetric anarchic quality of such compositions also characterizes contemporary New Wave graphics. This aesthetic, which has sprung up alongside of punk music and fashion, is characterized by the juxtaposition of disparate forms, symbols and lettering in designs that often are consciously crooked, random and askew...
...Talking Heads album is called Remain In Light. There's a nice computer graphic on the back, showing Russian warplanes over a mountain range. You can tell that the original members of the band--Byrne, guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison (late of Harvard), Bassist Tina Weymouth and Drummer Chris Frantz--met in art school. They're joined on this album by Adrian Belew, Jose Rossy, Jon Hassel, Nona Hendryx and the omnipresent Eno. Robert Palmer is among the many given credit for percussion but he probably just hit a bottle with a spoon on one song...