Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also not self-evident that the authors of the Constitution had in mind, when they talked of 'free speech,' a $4 billion industry which maintains degrading perceptions of a majority of the American population through visual as well as written means. Certainly they could not have imagined the qualitative difference in impact of the mass media as compared to the pamphlets they distributed as revolutionaries. Regardless of one's feelings on this particular interpretation, however, it remains clear that the general right to distribute obscene materials is not threatened...
...sculpture retained its intensity almost to the end, but his painting did not, and this became clear after 1950. Without doubt, MOMA'S great exhibition ends on a dying fall. The Picassian energy is still there, masquerading as inspiration, but too often it ends as a form of visual conjuring. Was he growing bored with his own virtuosity? Impossible to know. Since anything could be converted into a Picasso, and into a Picasso, and thence into gold, he suffered the dilemma of Midas twice over. This was the inevitable result of the fame he enjoyed in the last quarter-century...
...shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves?a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity or to the principles of narrative that would emerge in Proust or Joyce. The supremacy of the fixed viewpoint, embodied for 500 years in Renaissance perspective...
...Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual excitement; a sensible wife should not interfere. After Donna hangs up, Grant tells the audience that the caller's attitudes are insecure and childlike...
Barbara E. Norfleet, lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and a former section leader in Soc Sci 136, said at the reception that Riesman is "an intensely serious teacher," adding that he encouraged creative discussion among his section leaders and his students...