Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demonic Force. The artist now mixes media with enthusiastic abandon. The 17 monstrous painted panels in the London show are augmented by grafted-on photographic blowups, found objects and even entire plaster sculptures. And their subject matter is as apocalyptic as their technique is accomplished. Typical is his self-portrait of the artist at work. Whiteley painted in his head, wreathed in its halo of reddish hair, and showed his left hand drawing at an easel. But the right, black-shirted arm snakes out across the floor to where his twisted, plaster-spattered fingers offer the startled viewer a fresh...
...cover depicting Governors Rockefeller and Reagan as running mates [Oct. 20] has perhaps influenced public opinion, if not fused the two Governors together permanently as the Republican candidates in 1968. The question is raised, is this a true reflection of the public pulse, or has media created their image...
...mystery, J. D. Salinger with a guitar. Presumably one could invade Salinger's blockhouse and say hello. One is not so sure about Dylan. Last spring he disappeared into his own motorpsychic nightmare, shocked by an overdose of drugs. Albert Grossman, his oxymoronic manager, convinced the mass media that the disaster was a Triumph on the New Jersey Pike. Dylan took cover in Woodstock, New York. One of Dylan's former producers says that a new album is forthcoming. It is supposed to be "different...
...suggestion behind these questions goes to the root of Marshall McLuhan's theory that "the medium is the message." McLuhan, the communications gadfly who wrote The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, is the proponent of some slap-happy notions (The "jazz babies" of the 1920s caused the Depression by not caring about work). But his most fascinating idea is that television is a "cool, low-intensity" medium that projects a fuzzy image, compared with "hot" print and film. This means that the TV image demands the viewer's involvement by requiring him to complete the picture himself through...
...collector himself, he still thinks its cheerful acceptance has added yeast to the ferment. "It has helped art move from a private scene to a public scene," he points out. "In an odd way, the people who supported pop contributed to this by living public lives through mass media. We got to see their collections in magazines; they were talked about in the press, on TV. Their lives became public, and it made the general public much more aware of art and artists...