Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennan is far from alone. Because of widespread visual illiteracy, most of man-made America is ugly, messy and inchoate. But something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...
...Tops exemplifies the type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, they explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over a black top. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Piene, 42, who was a founder member of kinetic art's Group Zero and now works with M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, had been asked to put on an outdoor sculptural event by Citything, Pittsburgh's public arts program. The resulting balloon show lasted three days, cost contributors around $5,000 in cash and another $4,000 in materials and services...
...paint the body because it has great possibilities for interpretation," Wunderlich says. That much he shares with the German expressionists. But his dry wit and typically surrealist delight in visual and verbal puns provide ample comic relief. He titled a portrait of a woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...
...fault lies in Russell's lack of feeling for his material. During one scene in the novel-interestingly enough, a scene absent in the movie-Birken decries the emptiness of modern life and art. "I'm sure," he says, "life is all wrong because it has become much too visual-we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see." That's about how you feel after seeing Russell's version of Women in Love. And, as Lawrence might have added, seeing ain't necessarily believing...