Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewer had gone to bed early on Election Night and awakened at 2:10 a.m. E.S.T. to follow the returns, his TV screen would have presented quite a surprise. In many parts of the country, the screens were simply blank; in others they carried sign-off sermonettes or such ancient movie reruns as The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. Never before in a presidential race had so many stations retired so early. Even during the Johnson landslide they had kept Dracula's hours, but this time all three networks wrapped up their coverage...
...radiance flickers through successive depths and opacities, and even an eye tired by the scale of recent American art can still experience some of the surprise that, more than two decades ago, the size of Francis' canvas (8 ft. by 6 ft.) provoked. But rather than engulfing the viewer, Opposites caresses: a sea, but of rosewater. Its character-like that of the huge Monet water-lily panels which Francis studied in Paris-is openness...
...whatever the viewer's orientation happens to be, I don't see how he can escape the feeling that this film is somehow cruel. Heat, unlike its predecessor, Trash, has no stellar Holly Woodlawn performance to hide this fact from us. Somewhat cruel to the audience, yes--Heat has an icy cool sense of moral superiority underlying it, as it is constantly beating us over the heads with caricatures of ourselves while maintaining its own sang froid, and we should resent a movie that makes us bleed without bleeding itself...
...works document events rather than recreate them. He picks a situation and applies an arbitrary structure to it--using photographs, maps, and verbal statements. By applying such structures to events--such as mapping the route of an empty package sent to six different U.S. towns--he gives the viewer an insight into how we order our thoughts about daily events. It is the viewer's notion of conceiving the event that Huebler finds artistic...
DISCUSSING CONCEPTUAL art without talking about structure is like discussing oriental art without talking about Buddhism. From Huebler's structuring, the viewer learns about the way our culture conceptualizes different phenomena. Huebler structures and formalizes a very informal experience--almost simple-minded, daily tasks. "He uses these events to synthesize a new form," said Christopher Cook, guest curator for the exhibition...