Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been written on how photography acts on the real world: how it has altered our perceptions, our social relationships, our sense of reality. Such questions are fundamental. They haunt photographic criticism. But they seldom materialize as issues, despite the obvious fact that photography, and not painting, provides our chief visual images of the world and of ourselves...
...term could apply to his own oblique surrealism. Rings plunging through pianos, airborne castles, flaming keys and animated bottles are all part of the artist's whimsical, gravity-free universe. Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner (Abrams; 277 pages; $45) provides an opulent but ambiguous visual festival. The artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats...
...critic, attempts to pave a smooth, orderly path through this jungle of schools, styles, waves and blips. In Art Now (Morrow; 504 pages; $29.95) he efficiently gets the reader from abstract expressionism to superrealism. Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...
...times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...
...British zoologist and author of the new book Manwatching, a Field Guide to Human Behavior: "People will walk by an old man sitting on a park bench, but stare intently at a painter's portrait of an old man sitting on a park bench because it has the visual authority of a frame around it. To me, looking at people can be as fascinating as looking at a great work...