Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike a closeup look at the moon, the visual impact of Pacific Overtures is ravishingly beautiful. The screens and sets (Boris Aronson) and costumes (Florence Klotz) transport one hypnotically into the realm of ukiyoe, the "floating world" of the Japanese print. The shape and tone of the show is that of a Kabuki-styled operetta. It is audaciously ambitious and flagrantly pretentious. Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First...
...just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints, plus an exhibition of Massachusetts...
...Yale Art Gallery in the fall, accompanied geological survey teams into the uncharted Western vastness, recording the natural wonders as well as the Indian cultures on huge plates that resulted in prints of extraordinary clarity and detail. He also recorded the early settlements and manufactures. A fascinating, truthful visual record of our Old West...
...slanted news" would be corrected. Opposition newspapers feared that any abuses might come from the government, which has sole control over the network. "The mere presentation of the world at large is bound to have a far-reaching effect," editorialized the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. But so powerful a visual medium, it said, could also become a propaganda weapon "particularly when, as in South Africa, it is so much under the thumb of the political party in power...
...cracks are hardly sidesplitters. In fact, most humorous material on Ford is visual, not verbal. On NBC'S comedy show Saturday Night, Actor Chevy Chase often opens the program by stumbling into his lectern. Says Chase: "Ford is so inept that the quickest laugh is the cheapest laugh, and the cheapest is the physical joke...