Word: rorschacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach published a set of inkblots to be used for probing the personality, his name has become a household cliché for psychological testing. But when Rorschach died in 1922, at the age of 37, he had barely begun to extend the application of his test from mental patients to normal subjects, and he was still working with only ten cards. Those same ten cards are in use today...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie: a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film, a Rorschach blot into which the spectator can project whatever he pleases...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie: a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film, a Rorschach blot into which the spectator can project whatever he pleases...
...Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Appel copped the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the fattest of all international art prizes, for a violent, swirling abstraction called Woman with Ostrich, in which neither woman, nor ostrich was particularly recognizable except to those who have been overexposed to the Rorschach inkblot tests. At the Martha Jackson Gallery a few blocks south, 28 other Appel canvases hung last week, all looking as if they had been done in a rage...
...Study is being conducted on two levels. All the participants will take a series of 25 "paper and pencil" tests, but a small group of 50 will take additional tests, including the Rorschach ink-blot test, and will be interviewed by King and other members of the Study staff through the year...