Word: retina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century of cinema, television, and indeed Rube Goldberg, it was inevitable that art would start moving too. Now, hard on the heels of op artists, who address their work to the retina, has come a widespread number of "kinetic" artists, who try to combine mechanics and art. They are exploiting the human eye's capacity to perceive motion, and their work is the newest watchword on the fast-moving international gallery scene. Manhattan's avant-garde Jewish Museum is currently showing 102 works by kineticism's established practitioners, Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer. In Boston...
Most of the best poems in the book describe Brazil, where Poet Bishop has kept a pied à terre since 1952, and describe it in images that blazon the retina long after the book is closed. In "The Armadillo," for instance, she pictures the "frail, illegal fire balloons" that during Holy Week float up from Brazilian villages into the starry darkness, where they "flare and falter, wobble and toss" like fiery little moons in a mist...
Nude Affirmations. The primary reality could once be fairly stated as what one sees in nature. But the retina of modern man is deluged with a thousand images that are themselves manmade, not the least of which flash from the television screen. To be true to reality means to include such images; so what is more logical than to tuck a TV screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with...
...RETINAL DETACHMENT. In two years, surgeons at New York Hospital have used ultracold for 150 patients to "re-glue" the retina to the back of the eye ball after it has become detached (for reasons unknown), a condition that may quickly lead to blindness. By one of science's quirks, another recent treatment for retinal detachment involved use of the laser beam to produce a pinpoint of tremendous heat...
This short line compresses the bitterness of 30 years. But last week, as Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, lay shrouded in bandages after three operations for a detached retina of the eye, the glacial attitude of the royal family at last was softening. Queen Elizabeth graciously let it be known that she would visit her uncle as soon as his condition would permit. And she would not only take note that the duchess existed, but would extend her the royal hand in friendship...