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...audience. This is a key practice for Spielberg; his films feed the soul far more than they do the mind. Spielberg is not, in the end, a director who pays inordinate attention to a film’s characterizations, pace or intelligence; he will take an awe-inspiring visual over a smart line any day. At this philosophy’s extreme—the climactic Close Encounters of the Third Kind setpiece, for example—he lets the visuals overpower the story, paradoxically creating a numingly ponderous work that actually robs the soul of sustenance...
...Peace because of an ugly cover, and rarely will an even remotely judicious reader buy a book based solely on pretty cover art. In this show, even when the books do have content, the “reader’s” attention is inexorably drawn towards the visual aspects of the presentation—a tendency of which the artists seem fully aware, and even to embrace. McCarthy, for instance, says in her artist’s statement that “text is not a dominant feature of my books, though I will include hand written words...
That said, the themes each artist chooses to explore, through visual presentation, verbal expression or a combination of both, are all quite intriguing and well-executed. Davidson’s books tends to focus, rather self-consciously, on themes from art history and architecture, while McCarthy treats “history, religion, mythology, and the natural world,” and Shambroom’s sculptures explore the content-form relationship described above...
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...yearly “Naked Formal,” Adams House residents would invite models for classes in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies to come nude...