Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walker's opponents often fail to pay attention to the visual characteristic of her art. They write without noticing the peculiarities of her medium, as though she were simply presenting straight-forward racist scenarios in photographs or realistic paintings. But if a silhouette isn't a photograph, then a stereotype isn't a stereotype in Walker's hands...
...second listen to the first few minutes provided an opportunity to more fully absorb the complexities of Lin's remarkable performance. HRO lockstep accompaniment was seamless. The sheer physicality of the performance was mesmerizing. Stretching string players and puffing wind players provided little visual contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases...
...black and white. Kera Walker's recent installation in the Carpenter Center for the Arts appears in conjunction with Harvard's Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke: A Series of Conversations on the Use of Black Stereotypes in Contemporary Visual Practice." Walker's exhibit consists of silhouttes "Presenting Negro Scenes" that span the walls of the lobby...
This movie is the rare occurrence--though not so rare for the Coen duo--that combines a sharply written script with extensive visual imagination...
...maybe no verbal articulation of sociology and politics could have equalled the visual impact of this scene: certainly America's and possibly the world's pre-eminent black novelist standing before white marble busts of white former presidents, reading a story of riven societies while the wall behind her proclaimed "Liberty and Union Now and Forever...