Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work that they have produced is quite unique in the history of photography, but all in all, not particularly great. Their "visual statements" send to have all of the paradoxes implicit in the term; their photographs become a sort of cartoon where everything is exaggerated visually in order to assure their "message...
...writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates an imaginary solar system, complete with charts and graphs. At their worst the essays are self-consciously strident and border, at times, on the obscure. Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow only becomes of effective when the writers each...
...varies from contributor to contributor; from the short, contained prose of Frank Herbert to the philosophic ramblings to Theodore Sturgeon. The book is labelled "A Discursive Symposium" and indeed, it is a comprehensive survey of the field. Frederik Phol and George Zebrowski analyze science fiction in publishing and the visual media Poul Anderson and Hal Clement, in back-to-back essays, explain how writers create imaginary worlds and creatures, drawing on scientific data. And one of the few female science fiction novelists. Anne McCaffrey, examines the lack of glamour and romance in science fiction...
PRECISE MOVEMENT and clever choreography make the visual tableau in Walklyndon equally effective. In this lampoon of walking styles, the pacing is so sharp that the dancers give the feeling of a busy street corner in New York. Stern businessmen too pressed to shake hands, matrons walking their pets, friends out for a breath of air, all parade by. The theme grows more intriguing as walkers begin to bump into each other, scramble to avoid a collision, or walk over each other. In this dance, the facial expressions add such personality to the gaits themselves that the piece borders...
...Leok New, Another infiller, by Nichoias Roeg who made Performance, and who makes this picture so taut with surface brilliance that it's one of the most stunning visual experiences around--reality has shifted quietly into upside down by the time you leave the theatre People argue a lot about whether there's anything beneath the glaze, but the story in amazing and the ending is right up there with Well Until Dark for hop-out-of your beat cardiac arrests...