Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening concert in the gymnasium of the prison's medium-security cell-block unit was a soothing antidote for Soledad's pervasive atmosphere of violence and tension. One section of the prison unit was still locked up after the near-fatal stabbing of a white inmate on Christmas Day. Several days before the concert, 18 men were confined to the maximum-control unit of the penitentiary for insubordination. When Crouch arrived at Soledad with his multiracial band (four whites, five blacks), the chaplain cautioned them uneasily: "In the event of any disturbance, obey the instructions of the custodial...
...complexity of late classical and early Christian centuries can be sampled in a huge exhibition, which opened last month at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Age of Spirituality," assembled under the direction of Art Historian Kurt Weitzmann, is a magnificent compendium of some 450 works in every medium known to the ancient world?marble carvings, glass, gold, jewelry, silver, paint, cameos, cloth, mosaic, ivory, bronze...
...onward, the Christian emperors preferred flat hieratical art, especially mosaics, whose multiplicity of shapes suited a power based on ceremony. The "otherworldliness" of those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there could have been no better medium than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind...
...dozen critics in America whose silence would be a loss to writing itself, and Sontag is one of them. On Photography is not a history of photography. Nor is it a book about photographers. Instead, as the title declares, Sontag has elected to write a meditation on the medium itself...
...core of Sontag's argument is that photography is not an art: it is a language, a neutral medium. Its analogue is not painting but paint. "Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures and Atget's Paris...