Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great 19th century French realist Gustave Courbet once said that an artist ought to be able to render something--a distant pile of sticks, say, in a field--without actually knowing what it was. The hyperrealist Chuck Close has gone one better than that. In 1971 he painted the face of his father-in-law Nat Rose. The huge, minutely detailed likeness was bought by a Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close...
...contrarian analyses of the latest media spins can be numbing, not to say superfluous. "We're not just a bunch of pundits shouting for attention," protests Kinsley. "We're trying to clear through and sort out the clutter." Or do they just add to it? Readers are about to render their verdict...
...punch of Walker's exhibit is that it refuses to render the challenge of race into a simply rhetorical question. As cynical as the show is, it demands a solution from its audience. Like psycho-analysis, Walker's work reminds the viewer of things that she does not like to know that she knows. It confronts the audience with the grotesque, debasing racial stereotypes that are embedded in our collective psyche, with the hope that bringing them to consciousness will be the first step to their eradication...
...that it breaks down in practice. They argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perception of all women. They are wrong. Normal, sane men are not confused by their experiences with poster girls, seedy restaurants or gentlemen's magazines. Their enjoyment of such diversions does not render them incapable of healthy, respectful relationships with the opposite sex. Nor do the pathological among us receive their decisive nudge into misogyny from such sources...
This is the year to pity poor music lovers. Just when they thought they had assembled the best audio system budgets could buy, along comes a development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month Sony and Magnavox are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that will sell...