Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eduard F. Sekler, professor of Architecture and Coordinator of Studies at the Carpenter Center, will become chairman of the new Visual Studies Department when the department is created on July...
Even compromised in order to placate audiences, Kubrick's handling of the visual relationship between time and space is more than impressive. He has discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick...
Chilling is no overstatement, for Judd's works, commercially fabricated of Plexiglas, anodized aluminum, stainless steel Or galvanized iron have all the cosy warmth and intimacy of an assembly line or a bank vault. Still, the gallerygoers strolling among them seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series...
...ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...
Much of Steinberg's work aims at destroying a sense of physical recognition. Breaking down visual reality into its components, he loosens the viewer's death-grip on literal and contextural associations...