Word: particularizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though many of the minimal works on display at the Metropolitan could be reproduced exactly by anyone with correct instructions from the artist, the particular choice of proportion, composition, and color can make a work of art and not merely a decorative design. Beside reflecting the phenomenon of mass production, the possibility of infinitely reproducing a piece of art declares its indestructibility. Existing as a concept to be executed at any given moment, art defies the limits of its physical state and grabs for immortality...
...during and familiarity appeals instantly but the particular interest of Pop lies in social criticism. The works at the Metropolitan provide a dose including Old??nberg's giant pool balls. Lichtensten's cartoons, Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, Pop lets the viewer share the satisfied superiority of mocking America and its many brands of soup...
...ontological problems seem to dissolve when we are set into motion. To be going somewhere (literally) means in our world that you're either traveling in a car or better. Think of how much we need cars to set us free so we can each go to our own particular places...
...couldn't make it very clear. Jenny is a poor girl of Italian extraction, on scholarship at Radcliffe. She plays the harpsichord and is pretty much uninterested in everything else, Winthrop House jocks in particular. Brenda Patimkin in Goodbye Columbus was rich and cool about it, but here Oliver is the rich one-only not cool. Poor Oliver is absolutely taken with Jenny, and, eventually, she with him. The love story is happy this time (after the requisite trials and tribulations). You know this from the very beginning, because the body of the film is a flashback in husband Oliver...
...Jagger introduced himself as the devil and the audience burst into applause in recognition of its own dreams of what Mick Jagger doing "Sympathy for the Devil" would be like, and sure enough, when I asked people later they could have sworn they heard calypso. Most disappointing about this particular song, and most of Jagger's vocal performance for that matter, was the absence, up until "Satisfaction," of any vocal improvisation. Much of the Stones' dynamic relies on Jagger's talent for splintering and then remaking the vocal line, a technique he borrowed from soul music and worked to perfection...