Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, that if you don't look good, then you already have a strike against you. I've realized that people's opinions of good looks are so different that now I won't write off anyone on another person's opinion--it's just for my own mental visual impression that...
...religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti?crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies over idolatry had been resolved, the new religion picked over the bones of antiquity, preserving many of its forms in doctrinal art but switching their meaning...
...authors whose specialties run from marine biology to meteorology, and whose affiliations include such prestigious organizations as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the British Museum and a London-based group of scuba divers. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and specially prepared maps and charts, the book is also a visual delight. But the best feature of this large-format look at aqueous zones is its arrangement. Starting with the origin of the oceans some 4 billion years ago, it moves on through the formation and movement of the continents and proceeds to a discussion of the composition of the seas...
...continuity, but which confers on each moment the character of a mystery." Photography isolates: it cannot narrate. "Strictly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph .. . Only that which narrates can make us understand." Here, one may feel. Sontag exaggerates too sweepingly. If only narration gives cognition, every static visual image, from the bulls of Lascaux to the horse in Guernica, is condemned, by implication, to muteness. Goya's Third of May is an instant that epitomizes a massacre, not a narrative of the whole event. It shares that with photography, but who could say it does not enlarge...
...pale Brooks pastiche, and The World's Greatest Lover is more of the same. This is sad, for Wilder does have a fresh sensibility of his own to offer: here and there in his films one can find a sweet romantic streak and the beginnings of a surreal visual style. But Wilder refuses to trust his own instincts. Every time his movies start to travel down an original path, he pulls back and pays dim homage to Blazing Saddles...