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Political concerns motivate several of these works. In many cases, the perspective from which the work is painted reveals the artist's ideological intention. Childe Hassam's etching, Fifth Avenue, Noon, illustrates this trend. In the print, looming skyscrapers overshadow streets crowded with tiny people. Hassam uses line to emphasize...
The dark and forbidding depths of the Gulf of Mexico, once frequented by only the hardiest of sea creatures, are now alive with human activity. Miniature submarines and robot-like vehicles prowl the ocean bottom while divers wend their way around incredible underwater structures -- taller than Manhattan skyscrapers but almost...
I'm floating in the azure sky high above Seattle. Down below, amid orange skyscrapers and forest-green mountains, the city's Space Needle -- a relic of the 1962 World's Fair -- juts up like a metallic blue mushroom. A ferry is steaming across Puget Sound, while a playful killer...
I am the master of this brightly colored universe -- or at least I'm supposed to be. By pointing my index finger and cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its...
Japanese money is invested everywhere, from Tokyo skyscrapers to RJR Nabisco junk bonds to shares in Britain's newly privatized water companies. The scope of the Japanese surge abroad has been breathtaking. In 1984 Japanese banks held a little more than 20% of international banking assets, meaning the sum of...