Word: visional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...income taxes on their rental revenue, which comes from such sources as the land on which Yankee Stadium stands, a Detroit steel warehouse and a Connecticut steel mill. In New Orleans, Jesuit-run Loyola University pays no federal income tax on its revenues from its radio and tele vision stations, and thus is in a better position to compete for business than is its leading rival...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. This second novel about the Wapshot family is related to but very different from the earlier Wapshot Chronicle: the Chronicle's traditional way of life is not lost, but becomes a vision in the Scandal that makes more bearable the absurdities of the improvised present...
...drama in which shadows and echoes are the actors, and reality is as fleeting as a specter. With charred cinders for eyes, a face floats freely into space, tilting wanly as it rises, while tiny robed figures wander aimlessly in streams of nervous color. Embry affirms this disressing vision with a bold, negative gesture: he signs his works NO. Thirty small monotypes, mixed media and oils. Through...
...Vitamin Vision. Mondrian and other constructivists were forerunners of calculated geometry. But Mondrian, explains Vasarely, "was still abstracting natural forms, the sea or a tree. My plastic abstractions are composed of pure form and pure colors with no relation to natural structures at all. By 1955 I had developed a plastic alphabet of 30 simple geometric forms and 30 basic interchangeable colors." The A of his alphabet is the square, and the rest proceeds through ovals, rhombi, etc., in a code of images down to the Z shape itself. With these pictorial tools, he broadcasts winnowing waves like those...
...visual research is often challenged as phony. Yet in the permutations of pattern that sometimes hurt and sometimes enchant human vision lie the power and the challenge to change reality. As Bridget Riley says, "I wish somebody would give me a big wall to destroy. I mean, to make it no longer seem a wall...