Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guggenheim show. In it, space was for the first time declared to be the prime subject of sculpture, but by means traditional to painting: the flat surface, the boundary line. Since tin sheets do not ask to be stroked, as stone or bronze does, the Guitar was wholly visual sculpture, another mark of the new sensibility. If the word revolutionary still means anything in art, this was a revolutionary work. At one stroke it changed the history of its own medium...
...give sculpture a new standing as the product of labor rather than the emblem of luxury or abstract power. As a result, his work- or what survives of it after decades of neglect in Russia -as a singular freshness about it: plain, optimistic lingo, a kind of sophisticated visual slang...
...that respect, the Guggenheim's show is an interesting rebuke to historical myopia. But it is also, quite simply, a visual delight; and if any one exhibition in the U.S. may be seen as a weathercock, signaling the shift of taste away from romanticism and toward the once unpopular rigors of constructivism, this...
Refering to the building's interior, McKinnell said, "The attitude toward color and light adds to one's visual pleasure and makes it a very joyful building. It's a marvelous effort...
...team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack who went on to make King Kong, most of these film makers toiled in anonymity, under unimaginably arduous conditions, to bring back pictures for which they were ill paid, and which posterity has treated with cavalier indifference. A priceless visual record of our immediate past has been lost, cut up or allowed to disintegrate in ill-tended vaults. Similarly, the stories of the people who made these films have gone untended by film librarians. Until...