Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is a Passion play. The Prince (Ryszard Cieslak) does not have to be Christ, but everything about the performance suggests that he is. It is as if one were viewing the crucifixion and being crucified at the same time. The incantatory rendering of dialogue sometimes resembles the Mass. The...
Pop never was as radical as it has been made out to be. For one thing, it is more readily accessible to the casual viewer's sensibility than the austere abstraction of, say, a Barnett Newman or an Ad Reinhardt. Its images, in fact, depend in part on instant...
Dramatically, the Kabuki is most accessible to a Western audience when it mirrors human nature, and most baffling when it reflects the feudal social structure of 18th century Japan. In its painstakingly stylized way, the Grand Kabuki converts action and experience into a series of magnificent pictorial still lifes that...
Yet when Kulicke sits down to paint, he produces minute still lifes in a nostalgic, bittersweet style that he calls "more 17th century than 20th."
Francis Russell, historian of Sacco and Vanzetti (Tragedy in Dedham), keeps his camera circling the 29th President of the United States and sometimes almost creates the illusion the body is twitching with life. Manfully he rates Harding as "an astute and able Ohio politician" and "above all, a kindly man...