Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence College was released three years ago from the protective custody of Vassar's President Henry Noble McCracken (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), its eight-year-old feet set firmly on the path of progressive education. Ever since then, the college has wanted to record in film a "sustained visual explanation" of itself. Last week the wish was fact...
...Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer to a new stage...
...first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic lantern slides. But all agreed the incident was historic...
...invented the "pictograph" or "isotype" method of conveying sociological statistics by quantitative symbols (a convenient and striking dodge that for rows of dead numbers substitutes conventionalized pictures of men, machines, factories, whatever, each picture-unit representing any number the statistician states). He now heads the International Foundation for Visual Education. Out of his feeling, and that of his group in Vienna, that science should be a unified endeavor with a unified language, there grew a series of unification congresses and an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (TiME, Aug. 1, 1938). The first two volumes were to comprise 20 monographs. Seven...
...week at the Galerie Quatre Chemins in Paris, Maurice Grosser displayed his latest and most interesting creations: paintings of fruits and vegetables in heroic sizes (twice to twelve times nature). By this simple device of magnification, Grosser has lately made strawberries and peppers not merely more edible but more visual, has shocked even jaded critics into recognizing the richness, delicacy and care of his painting. As untidy in his life as he is tidy in his painting, stocky, mocking, hard-working Artist Grosser last week fidgeted, tore up match boxes, explained his preference of subject matter with classic concision: "Humans...