Word: revolutionizing
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The task of capturing all this energy on a cover was passed to Robert Rauschenberg. The American artist, whose imagistic collages are chock-full of cultural and historical allusions, created the special cover over four intense days and nights in his studio on Florida's Captiva Island. "There's no...
The tape recorder was unveiled in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, to which visitors flocked to be scandalized by Rodin's non-Victorian statues, and Kodak introduced the Brownie camera, an apt symbol of a century in which technology would at first seem magical, then become simple, cheap and personal...
THE GENOCIDAL CENTURY Then there was the dark side. Amid the glories of the century lurked some of history's worst horrors: Stalin's collectivization, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Idi Amin's rampages. We try to personalize the blame, as if it...
The reasons noir has been repopularized may be specific to our era, but ironically they give me hope for the future of noir. Whatever the short-term future of the genre, I think there will be another resurgence of interest during the next technological revolution (and the economic boom that...
His credo celebrates the "Blanc et Noir" of the penguin; for the Penmaster, the coloring of this seabird potently symbolizes the noir struggle between good and evil. However, as interesting a symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual...