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Psychedevotional at Ohm. Op art has conditioned gallerygoers to accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
...tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
Space Warp & Optic Energy. Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic...
...finishes that are impersonal, materials that are industrial: plastic, Formica, steel, chrome plate, baked enamel, fluorescent lights. One of the artists in the exhibition studied naval architecture, another engineering. Their lingo is strictly post-Einstein; they speak of their art in terms of space warp, time lines, and optic energy...
...shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...