Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basement and fourth floor will be totally restored to more fully accommodate the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, she said...
...almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar image of him as a violent expressionist. As William Rubin suggests in the catalogue to this show, his musical counterpart is not the romantic and moody Bartók: it is the interlaced, twinkling and silky...
...Even so, White was always among the first to discern the now familiar signs and portents: ecological disturbances, the decline of various species, the discovery that last year's medical boons may lead to tomorrow's degenerative diseases, the horrors of a mindless but ubiquitous visual press, and the debilitating result of trying to achieve salable "smoothness and softness" in everything...
...apple carts, more than anything else about the urban listlessness of Detroit, evoke the imagery of economic depression. They are a part of the visual heritage of the Great Depresssion that has survived into the 1980s. They confirm that a new depression is crushing industrial America and industrial workers. In Detroit, the depression stems from the collapse of the automotive industry, which has lost 10 per cent of its market to Japanese competitors over the last three years...
...Sculptor Kenneth Price, 46. But where Mason's work is rocklike and lumpen totemic. Price's involves an elegant denial of clay's earthen nature. His sharp-angled, cubistic "cup" sculptures look so machined and precise that they might have been conceived in metal; the brilliant visual punch of the industrial glazes in De Chirico's Bathhouse, 1980, accentuated by the thin white lines where the facets of clay meet, gives these tiny objects a mysterious, artificial density...