Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language just as much as it is upon vision Travelog, however, has no such solid base. The pictures in it just are not good enough. The very process of photography creates enough of a suspension of the real and mystification of it to make the image of a real object in fact surreal. But Harbutt has not realized that such truly surreal and evocative photography requires pictures that are as classically descriptive and uncontrived as a photograph...
Whores and Lice. At her simplest level, the Keneally Joan can be very simple indeed-obstinate but rather dull with the protuberant brown eyes of a cow: "Looking at her, you nearly went to sleep." She is an object of manipulation. The knights wave her like a banner to win battles. The "fat clergy" cash in those victories as new ecclesiastical revenue. The Dauphin, of course, uses her to gain his crown. Keneally graphically savors the irony of this visionary innocent ("our little he-nun") ending up in the midst of disemboweled and headless corpses, moving from battlefield to bloody...
...PERIODS, birds and animals appear as small statuettes carved in the round and as geometricized plaques, and pendants. Shapes become more intricate, the number of carved and polished edges attesting to the virtuosity of the craftsman. Pi disks are adorned with raised spirals and the ornamental design of an object becomes interesting in itself as a thing independent of the material in which it is carved. New shapes are introduced and a twisting sinuous motion begins to pervade carvings of dragons and felines but the older, more severe forms still exercise a tremendous hold on the Chinese imagination...
Individuals and groups who object to a controversial speaker should understand the limits of protest in a community committed to the principles of free speech. Let us therefore be clear about those limits...
Perhaps the most interesting of Dove's early works was a series of about 25 assemblages he did between 1924 and 1930, including Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry (1924). It owes something to Picabia (who, some years before, had done a number of "object-portraits"-Stieglitz as a camera and so forth), but the fascinating aspect today is how prophetic this small image is. No doubt Dove meant the folding inch-rule that runs round the portrait like a frame to be a gruff joke-how do you measure the fictional space of a painting? But that joke, 35 years...