Word: precisionism
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And yet such works are very unlike their ancestors. One must look first at the differences, then at the similarities -- so Rowell argues; and the show is based on her belief that "sculpture is in essence a 20th century idea." The result is a big exhibition conceived with elegant if...
Early travelers tended to emphasize wonders at the expense of precision, secure in the belief that no one would make the same arduous journey simply to contradict them. A colleague of Magellan's reported a strange sight in Patagonia: "One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who...
Kovacs loved music and used it wonderfully, from his catchy ragtime theme song to such precursors of music videos as a "dance" of office furniture to Sentimental Journey or a poker game played to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Perhaps his most famous creation was the Nairobi Trio, a pantomime band...
The acknowledged guru of the computer movement is Philip Meyer, 55, now professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meyer first used a computer as an investigative tool when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, analyzing the demographics of blacks in Detroit...
Creatures, spaceships and other objects are inserted into the action of the film by means of the blue-screen process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each...