Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon's role in history into a visual metaphor. What Gance pioneered has since become standard...
...context intrinsic to the epic theater. As if fearing to offend an audience too used to pleasurable theater and unwilling to be taught, Cutler has dismantled most of the instructive apparatus of Brecht's theater. But for the second Threepenny Finale, the placards bearing song and scene titles--the visual, literal representation necessary for didacticism--are wanting. While the narrator (Lars-Gunnar Wigemar), a ballad-singer, stalks about the stage describing subsequent scenes, this is not enough. He simply reduces the value of the lesson to be learned to the level of a nice story. The didacticism is lost...
...because they think of them as tombs, or something negative," he remarked in an interview recently. "I've always loved them. They are to me lighthouses of utopianism and social well-being." Why utopianism? Because the museum does nothing if it does not strive toward some ideal of visual literacy. Its mission begins from the unquestioned belief that learning to see is as important as learning to read, and that seeing is not the property of one class...
...only University official "delighted" by the sudden news. His selection made him Harvard's third Nobel Laureate this year, tying a 27-year-old University mark. Just two weeks earlier, two Medical School professors had garnered the prize in medicine for research on how the brain processes visual information...
Hubel and Wiesel have provided a road map of a small portion of that world. By measuring electrical impulses given off by the neurons of the visual cortex, the researchers discovered that the cells in the cortex are arranged in a regular pattern in columns organized into equally regular "hypercolumns." Each cell within each column, they discovered, has a specific responsibility to perceive and analyze incoming images according to contrast, linear patterns and movement on the retina. Within the columns, the analysis also occurs in a formal sequence. Eventually all this information is relayed to the higher centers...