Word: logics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visual Logic. Siqueiros worked from photographs, but the effects he created are anything but photographic. Faces are distorted, sometimes to the point of caricature, bodies grotesquely contorted to match the mood of the scene...
Mural painting, Siqueiros believes, is a special art that demands a totally different kind of visual logic than portraiture. For him, it is "architectural art, active painting for the active spectator." Since the viewer moves as he looks at the mural, the traditional fixed Renaissance perspective will not do. Instead, Siqueiros emphasizes a multiplicity of vantage points...
...bizarre effects, his compositions have flashes of a kind of mad logic. Sometimes inane, often infuriating but rarely boring, Stockhausen's music is not, as many conclude on first hearing, the work of a prankster. He often composes twelve hours a day. "I want to be able to bring sounds from every surface area of the room," he says. "Why not loudspeakers on swings overhead, or a completely globular room with loudspeakers blanketing the walls and the listeners on a platform suspended in the center?" As far as some concertgoers are concerned, a better idea would be to suspend...
Either public opinion or the movie moguls' under-standing of it has realy flipped out. By all logic, the spy genre should have dwindled out of existence months ago. Instead it has grown into a ghastly fungus that won't tolerate competition. Westerns are fewer and cheaper than ever before. Mysteries without international accents seem no longer to have a place in the Hollywood scheme of things. Raw tales of adventure--well, when did you last see a raw tale of adventure...
...there are also relatively few all-out pacifists. Most critics concede that in certain conditions, war is morally justifiable-but assert that this is not the case in Viet Nam. Why one war is justified but not another is an immensely difficult question; the answer, tentative at best, requires logic, precision and a measure of emotional detachment. These qualities are largely missing in the Viet Nam debate. The tendency is to call anything there that is distasteful or tragic "immoral." Yet the concept of a just or an unjust use of force involves complex judgments of means and aims...