Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title that the show's organizer, Douglas MacAgy, amplifies on by citing Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." For the first 20th century abstract artists, the impossible was "the accreted imagery that has been a characteristic of visual art ever since the Renaissance." First to jettison traditional images altogether, as MacAgy shows, was the Russian suprematist Kasimir Malevich, with his revolutionary 1913 drawings of two squares and a circle...
...reference is not facile. Paul McCartney once said: With any kind of thing, my aim seems to be to distort it, distort it from what we know it as, even with music and visual things, and to change it from what it is to see what it could do. To see the potential in it all. To take a note and wreck it and see in that note what else there is in it, that a simple act like distorting has caused. It's all trying to create magic, it's all trying to make things happen so that...
Nearly overcome by the combined talents of Messrs, Lewis and Bizet, the production staggered punch-drunk through Oliver Smith's scenery, obviously stolen from the backgrounds of one or two Walter Lantz cartoons, and Peter Hunt's lighting, so determinedly atmospheric that is declined to illuminate such non-visual set components as actors. Bruce Yarnell, of Annie Get Your Gun fame, sang Escamillo with an ample baritone, but sounded ready to launch into "The Girl That I Marry" at the smallest provocation. Carole Bogard's Micaela had lots of potential but her lively soprano couldn't compensate for the inherent...
...Faculty disposed of two long-debated issues yesterday, chopping the language requirement from two years to one and establishing a new department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
...department of Visual and Environmental Studies also will begin next fall, though details of its course offerings and concentration requirements were not specified in the motion approved yesterday. The new department will supplement the present department of Architectural Sciences and will incorporate the Visual Studies now offered by the Committee of the Practice of Visual Arts...