Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metaphor. Ever since the Futurists declared a racing car to be more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace, artists have thought about connecting their work to the Faustian energies of 20th century technology. Never has the dream become more urgent than in today's electronically conditioned society. It is a fundamental issue because the very idea of "experiment," endlessly declared to be the founding principle of modern art, is really a metaphor drawn from science and industry. The problem is that industrial experiment radically changes the world, whereas artistic experiment does so only marginally and for a minority...
BECAUSE she is so sensitive about the female body, one wonders why she has chosen a male image for the title. Rather than saying simply that women have too long had to suppress their energy and aggressiveness, she says instead that they've been castrated. Metaphor or not, it's annoying that women must be constantly compared to men. Although it's not, it sounds like penis envy in another form...
...board instruments. It was also photographing the moonscape and scanning the heavens with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared the little vehicle to a faithful "workhorse that toiled from dawn till sunset...
...Jackson State College, and murdered Philip Gibbs and James Earl Green and wounded nine other students. The incident at Jackson, coming within two weeks of the four murders at Kent State, were immediately paralleled to the Kent killings, and used as a re-enforcement of the "Student as Nigger" metaphor. However, there was a large and important difference between what happened at Jackson and what happened at Kent, and an even larger difference in what has been the reaction to the two events. These differences illustrate not so much the parallel but the distinction between nigger and student. And they...
...movement, no gesture, no direction. No mass (only gleaming metal surfaces and transparencies of color per-spex). No pedestal: the box on the floor is the sculpture. No metaphor, no image, and especially no relation or reference to the human figure...