Word: motif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge contact sheet when Carbone is taking his pictures of Lulu; for a photo-montage providing a dimension of memory to a sex scene between Lulu and Louis Lebow; as a scrim behind which silhouettes meet in confrontation; finally, for the stunning reappearance of the eyeball, the motif of the play, serving at this point as an exclamation point for Lulu's murder...
Cornell had many modes, and they ran from the white abstract grids of his "Dovecotes," filled with one repeated geo metrical motif-a ball, a wooden cube -to his lush romantic tree grottoes filled with exotic birds. But to see him as a reclusive American eccentric, a man working solely out of private fantasy, is to miss one major point of his art: its continual dialogue with the work of other artists, not only the Renaissance and mannerist painters whose images he selectively filched (as in his Medici Prince and Medici Princess boxes), but also those of the 20th century...
...moved on to belittle Reagan's tenuous loyalty to federal aid for the poor and elderly, Carter carefully maintained his "golden years" motif. He pointed out that Reagan has dishonored the sacred memories of Democratic heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and John F. Kennedy by twisting their words of hope and fortitude into justifications for heartless conservatism. These are words that many lower middle class Italians of Prince Street remember clearly; these are the leaders they still worship. Jimmy Carter knew he couldn't climb onto a marble throne next to FDR or JFK, but he also knew...
...design of a company tie can be a topic important enough to require top-management decision. At Cleveland Trust Co., key executives spent months debating the company tie's pattern and testing various samples on associates. They finally settled on a stylized CT motif...
...injection of feeling into conventional subject matter that the century has to offer. Indeed, the effort was such that it carried him past the end of the picture into a series of weeping women's heads, which show, even more clearly than Guernica, how Picasso could saturate a motif with meaning, to the point where it could hold no more truth. This free passage from feeling into meaning was the ing into meaning was the essence of his genius. Even when he was painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form...