Word: stark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solemn contrast to elaborate paintings of wise teachers in rich robes. Sometimes there is no need for ornamentation. One particularly striking work is a black and white photograph of three ascetics, men who practice strict self-denial as a part of their spiritual discipline. Their sheet-garments are stark white, and their ribs make it painfully obvious that their spiritual devotion is unwavering. Yet they are so serene and peacefully content, one has to wonder if they know something the rest of us don't. Can the soul live best when it lives simply? This is one of the many...
...those wary of stark severity, fear not--the exhibit includes a quintet of colored prints. Though they hold little geometric innovation; Shellburne Shellburne Thurber's trio of photographs seems Bohemian next to the sophisticated simplicity of Morell's and Casebere's works, by virtue of color alone. Thurber depicts three rooms from his deceased Aunt Anna's house which are in interior decorator's nightmare. More aesthetically pleasing than these purple-and-yellow bookshelves and orange curtains are the strong diagonals delineated by Stephane Couturier's gargantuan Paris construction photos, which flank the entrance to the gallery...
When these performers get to play out, people listen, if not for genuine interest then at least for the excitement of the rare opportunity. The dearth of such groups is so stark that any musical contrast, whether derivative punk or boundary-pushing synth noise, bestows a welcome color to the campus landscape. At Harvard, to be a musical pioneer doesn't require a genre-defining newness, just the will and perseverance to write an original song...
...critique gets better. It argues our decade has reached a new pinnacle of capitalism because the corporation has crushed or subsumed any thing that might stand in its way. The fifties, for example, had the Beatniks, those whose lifestyles of drug-abuse, idleness and aimlessness stood in stark contrast to white-bread I-like-Ike America...
...autobiographical in the sense that any one of the characters represented a totality of my Yeshiva experience. When I was in Yeshiva, I was neither one of the "stark" guys, one of the guys on the inside, who was fiercely loyal to the rabbis and their ideas, nor was I one of the parking lot guys who stood on the outside looking in and sort of denigrating what was going on inside. I was actually a personality that I didn't really show at all, the person who was very committed and devoted and stayed on the inside...