Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing had to do it through the figure. Well, I just happen to be saying what I want to say through a car." A student of transcendental meditation, he describes the car as his mantra: a means to self-knowledge through prolonged application of craft to an unreal problem. It represents a process, not a solution. "Potts," says Art Critic Thomas Garver, in the catalogue introducing the car, "regards the true work of art to be the artist himself. The car is not a public object but a building way to probe more deeply into himself...
...11/10 in. by 4 1/5 in. by 7 in.) to fit into the breast pocket of a man's jacket. It weighs 26 oz. and is completely automatic, even to film advancement, which has had to be done manually (and sometimes faultily) in all previous models. The most unreal thing about the SX-70 is its film, which will cost no more than current Polaroid color film (about 45? per picture). Flicking out of the camera only 1.2 sec. after exposure, the pictures at first are a mass of opaque blue-gray, then slowly develop within four minutes...
...unreal. World exploding around us. Sit on ground taking notes. Soldiers pop up around us, fire short bursts and then sink back into brittle bamboo. Purple smoke spirals upward on north, pink on south. Rockets crash and thud. 50-cal., thud. M-16 pops. Suddenly, all fire stops and movement shifts to north. Land smoldering, wall of burning tree stumps...
...disillusion when these expectations are unfulfilled. This is often combined with rootlessness, both geographic and moral. Cut off from any real community, the lonely men in rooming houses (but sometimes also on campuses or in the midst of prosperous suburbs) substitute fantasy for roots; life-and death-becomes equally unreal...
...situation of danger." In France, where some 20,000 Parisians marched to protest Nixon's action, Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann called it "a brutal worsening of the situation." The French newspaper Le Monde said that the Nixon speech, like others made by the President on the war, was "unreal-it is not an ocean which separates the California coast from Indochina but a bottomless political and cultural trench." Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, offering a rare criticism of the U.S., called the blockade "not a wise move," although he sympathized with Nixon's aims...