Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just verbal, but visual art-forms stress the unseen. Recently a smudged piece of paper entitled "Drawing by DeKooning erased by Rauschenberg with the artist's permission" sold as a work of art. When idea triumphs over image in this way, the art evades sensory comprehension; we can't reach it through sight, taste, smell, sound or even touch; the only way it can be grasped is with the intellect. The question that should be asked last gets asked first: "What's it all about...
...with New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett, pronounced herself "as baffled as before." On Carter: "He skirts around things." But she found Carter more personally appealing. She appreciated the fact that "Ford was a little more direct than Carter." Her expert's judgment of the debate as a visual production? "A bore...
...show of visual games and illusions that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts may not be the most profound art exhibition in recent years, but it is among the most exotic and diverting. It is called "Anamorphoses." The word comes from the Greek roots for "shape" and "again," and it applies to images or patterns that look illegible, mere scrawls and smears, until reconstituted-either by looking at them side-on or by glimpsing their reflections in a specially placed cylindrical, conic or pyramidal mirror. The organizers, two young Dutch artist-scholars named Michael Schuyt...
...thriller. But no such luck--Antonioni isn't really interested in guns--or anything else for that matter--so Nicholson simply wanders through Europe in an existential search for self-identity and the Meaning of Life, picking up a languid Maria Schneider en route. Only the film's visual beauty--Spanish landscape and Gaudi architecture shot in lush Italian style--in any way redeems this tedious monstrosity...
Disco is the ultimate social dance experience. So say its devotees. The less enchanted flee its aural and visual din as from Chinese water torture. No matter. In thousands of mirrored, strobe-lighted discotheques around the U.S., the beautiful people, and some not so beautiful, dance the night and morning away to a loud, seamless stream of glossily recorded rhythm-and-blues songs. Disco has become not only an energetic way to play the mating game but also one of the hottest subindustries in the popular-entertainment field. In terms of the hit singles that can now be made...