Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small building. Her models and table-sculptures are as a rule no more interesting than ashtrays; there is not enough going on in them to hold the eye. Size is what makes them work, and when they are large, their internal structure of gusset and rib gives them a visual texture that they lack on the small scale. One needs to walk around them and clamber inside their angular crevices. The planes of steel, sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk implicit in large scale...
...year after a personnel shake-up in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Robert G. Gardner, chairman of the department, said yesterday he feels, his department is "coming along...
...simplification of character that Tanner is unable to resist. When reinforced with an often facile symbolism, these nuances of individual behavior cement the stereotyping of sexual roles that makes The Middle of the World far inferior to Scenes from a Marriage in its dissection of a couple's relationship. Visual snatches of Paul caressing Adriana's leg or putting his hand under her shirt serve to force his character into a one-dimensional world of male physicality and insensitivity. The periodic eruption of a train into the placid Swiss countryside relentlessly hammers us with its tiresome commentary on Paul...
...TANNER must insist on formulating such pat sexual roles for his lead characters, it would be, one would hope, for the purpose of making some broader statement about why such behavior is so typical of men and women in society. But his adherence to a visual world where details reign supreme and where events occur without apparent consequences not only divests Paul and Adriana of any real inner complexity; it also undercuts whatever representativeness they might have by fragmentating their relations with society into symbols of isolation and solitude. Paul's eventual defeat in the election is merely an incidental...
...paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic memories of its artists, the visual recollections of its devotees -to preserve that tradition? What other art has stressed so emphatically the feminine graces, while making most of its durable legends...