Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks nothing of erecting a free standing wall simply to catch the shadow of a nearby tree. Where others speak of views, Barragán celebrates the walled garden. Says he: "A landscape that is held and framed with a proper foreground is worth double." He would like...
...nubbly expanse of sand. Bill de Palma's black-and-white picture of a black billboard, a line of trees, two parked cars and a man in an overcoat holding a paper cup, beside a wet-haired kid wearing sunglasses, is a display of visual acuity remarkable for its simplicity, poise and verve...
Other pictures are more emphatically striking: a large color photograph by Paul Souza, shot through a tilting windshield, containing a snaking road, dark cliffs and, above the foreshortened yellow strip of the car's hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian...
Funded by contributions to the Dante Society, the two-story brick center will occupy 13,000 square feet in the heart of an 87,000 square-foot Cambridge Redevelopment Authority project. It will contain an Italian-and-English library of 10,000 volumes, classrooms, art exhibition areas, audio-visual facilities, meeting rooms and lounges. The center will offer college-level Italian language courses and Italian theater. Its library will contain works on the literature, geography, history, music and art of Italy...
...forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual evidence that she would not give in to the gunmen either...