Word: icons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is the most familiar U.S. advertisement? For years the answer was the Marlboro Man, an American icon who helped make the Philip Morris cigarette the nation's best-selling brand. No longer. According to the latest report from Video Storyboard Tests, a New York City firm that rates the ten most noticed print ads, Marlboro has been edged out by Calvin Klein, the designer whose suggestive series of underwear ads first appeared in 1982. Says Dave Vadehra, president of Video Storyboard Tests: "Calvin Klein has managed to do in three years what it took Marlboro 20 years...
...viewers encountered strange things. There was a battery of television monitors, showing preprogrammed tapes, set behind a bank of aquariums, in which fish swam randomly. There was a statue of Buddha seated before a closed-circuit TV camera and, below that, a small receiver. Gallerygoers could watch an icon contemplate its own image. If Paik's art seems serendipitous, so does his journey to the U.S. His periodically prosperous family was driven out of Seoul in 1950 by the ravages of the Korean War. His father resettled first in Hong Kong and then Tokyo, where Paik earned a university degree...
...That is to say, they bear signs of social meaning beneath their inert stylishness, and they exude a creepy sense of the disconnectedness of things. He has developed a way, as in Miner, 1984, of dissolving conventional images of conflict (the slumped miner of the title is a '30s icon of labor, as the outlines of Frank Lloyd Wright's mushroom columns from the S.C. Johnson building are, literally, "capital") and then working them back in layers of visual-verbal puns and allusions. Thus the brutally splintered cafe tabletops anchored to the painting's surface work both as echoes...
...interesting." I mean, everything I do is sort of tongue in cheek. It's a strange blend -- a beautiful sort of symbolism, the idea of someone suffering, which is what Jesus Christ on a crucifix stands for, and then not taking it seriously at all. Seeing it as an icon with no religiousness attached to it. It isn't a sacrilegious thing for me. I'm not saying, "This is Jesus Christ," and I'm laughing. When I went to Catholic schools, I thought the huge crucifixes nuns wore around their necks with their habits were really beautiful. I have...
...member of Rocky's extended family of hard-core bikers emerges as a candidate for a humanitarian of the year award by the picture's end. Must we really believe that these Hell's Angels are so sympathetic and intelligent that they could displace Doug Flutie as the reigning icon of America's youth? In the midst of this three-ring circus of bikers, drug dealers and juvenile delinquents-come-lately, Rocky sticks out like a biker in a tuxedo--or a T.V. movie director spraying creative graffiti on the silver screen. We mourn for him not only because...