Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brown veined marble of the consoles and mantel top - as signs that "stand for" real things. But the painting, as always in Braque, is full of direct physical insistences: the weight and precarious balance of the clutter on the mantelpiece, almost toppling toward the eye, contrasted with the black void of the fireplace below. And the intricate composition of Braque's major canvases always acts as a way of distributing one's attention among objects as evenly as possible...
Visual Parallel. Typically, each of Johnson's works focuses on one central emblem, stained into an unstretched canvas that hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite green. Johnson is an exceptional colorist, both astringent and opulent, and his work-like many a Tibetan tanka or Indonesian temple door-makes no bones about its decorative aspect. Yet behind this seduction of the eye is a strange impersonality, as though Johnson's role in painting them...
...hardly remain without effect upon the tenor of social life." Freud, Adler and Jung? Although psychoanalysts "offer many fundamental insights into real-life situations" and cannot be accused of banality or irrelevance, Andreski says, they lack "a sense of proportion." Thus, he concludes, "we are left in the void between quantified trivialities and fascinating but entirely undisciplined flights of fantasy...
...will this year teach the Department's course on Afro-American history from 1865 to the present. However, Guinier's courses have, never been well-attended--he usually only attracts about ten to fifteen students to his courses--and it thus seems unlikely that he can really fill this void in the Department...
Judicial authorities have still not ruled whether all of the Corkery judgements are null and void...