Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Branded. It is barely an exaggeration to say that by 1900 women had no visual culture they could call their own. Only two art activities were left to them. Well brought-up girls could do small watercolors, which were considered signs of "accomplishment," like a precarious tinkling on the pianoforte. Poorer girls, on the other hand, could make craft objects like pots or quilts. But such craftwork was also by reigning definition not high art. Since women's talent had been deprived of a social context in which it could make art, there was no problem in branding...
...evoking the texture and variety of an ethnic subculture. He took enormous pains to project a believable period milieu, using old cars, plastering buildings with correctly dated posters and handbills, even making sure that such minute items as pencils and lipsticks were authentic. He and his cinematographer emulated the visual style of the period, eschewing zoom lenses, fast cuts and jarring closeups. They used many longer tableau shots, achieving emphasis with subtle framing and lighting. Coppola edited it all together in what he calls a "legato" rather than a "staccato" rhythm, enabling him to build tension gradually and effectively over...
...painting." The paintings are drenched in harsh and unappetizing color: the dark blue and bland bathroom-blue halves of Untitled, 1971, could almost go into a motel. But their relationships, as one edge of paint slides behind another "like theater curtains," are always controlled just this side of visual cacophony. By taking up some of the most overworked aspects of abstract expressionism-the extravagantly rich paint, the sweeping gesture-and presenting them in this faintly ironic form (one of his titles, The Triumph of American Painting, was also the title of a recent tome on the New York school), Diao...
...group, refusing to move, simply stated that he did not want to speak with Herrnstein--and Herrnstein was forced to speak in another room. Reports of a plan by the University Action Group of Princeton to bar Herrnstein from leaving a room where he was to speak on "The Visual World of the Pigeon"--unless he agreed to answer questions on his I.Q. article--caused Herrnstein to cancel the lecture...
Special Display of Banners. Carpenter Center, through March 19. Student Work from Visual and Environmental Studies 127. Through March...