Word: spatiality
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...genre that dominates Hollywood today (or vice versa, as Godard would note: "the invention of photography: for whom? against whom?"-an advance determined by class relations, a perfection of bourgeois cultural oppression, as he explains in Wind From the East ) based on a more "convincing" and "realistic" image with spatial and dramatic ambiguity. Orson Welles first developed the new realism in Citizen Kane -its elements of symbolism, multi-level causality, mystery, and ambiguity (tragedy, too)-and Andre Bazin glorified it in criticism, developing a metaphysical formalism that invests the most innocent pan or track with human Significance. Autenrist critics...
...ambiguity of his visual expression reveals an anarchic temperament (to be distinguished from an anarchist politics ). Petri shifts rapidly between shots of rich chaos and those of extremely centralist organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
...that dominates Hollywood today (or vice versa, as Godard would note: "the invention of photography: for whom? against whom?"-an advance determined by class relations, a perfection of bourgeois cultural oppression, as he explains in Wind From the East ) based on a more "convincing" and "realistic" image with more spatial and dramatic ambiguity. Orson Welles first developed the new realism in Citizen Kane -its elements of symbolism, multi-level causality, mystery, and am biguity (tragedy, too)-and Andre Bazin glorified it in criticism, developing a metaphysical formalism that invests the most innocent pan or track with human Significance. Auteurist critics...
...Picasso apple next to it evokes Gertrude Stein's imagery: the apple turns round and round, unlimited in space. Studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and for Nude with Drapery show how Picasso was beginning to juxtapose dark and light without shadowing or shading-the result, a differentiation in spatial positions: a new technique, a new space, a new way of looking...
...Soviet Constructivists exhibited some of the first attempts to deal with space, and they did this as artists of society, not as artists of isolated schools; their originality and bold idealism added a new spatial metaphysics to visual thought. Where artists had thought in terms of mass and birthday cakes, they could now think in terms of space and atoms...