Word: webbed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exploiting an extraordinary wealth of scholarly, journalistic and pop culture documentation--everything from Dr. Spock to Elvis Presley to Mad Magazine--the author develops a complex web of historical context to explain the origins and antecedents of a movement that has all too often been simplistically reduced to single determinants (the war, the Bomb, the generation gap, etc.). Both rigorous and readable, his analysis convincingly explains how the student movement and the counterculture came into being without either trivializing them or drowning itself in its own data...
...koan-like events (talking to a dead hare, sweeping a pavement) that were Beuys' specialty. Kiefer wants to involve his audience completely in the drama of the painting's construction; in this respect, he has learned a lot from the example of Jackson Pollock. As when deciphering the web of drips and mottlings in one of Pollock's "all-over" abstractions, the eye crawls its way across a Kiefer, mesmerized by detail: every square centimeter of those giant canvases is intended, somehow, to speak. What they were saying, particularly in the '70s and early '80s, was so literal that...
...then, after The Middle Ground, silence. Drabble busied herself preparing a new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, which was published in 1985. This task, though eminently worthwhile, raised a troubling question. Had Drabble given up her struggle to reclaim some of the public world, the intricate web of the way we live now, as the proper province of fiction...
...tough crime fighter, the Attorney General's wife, Ursula Meese, wrote to a federal judge urging special treatment for a family friend facing criminal charges. While Meese did not write or necessarily authorize his wife's letter, his failure to condemn it and immediately apologize entangles him in a web of sleaze. Once again, we're left to wonder whether Meese even realizes that something unethical has taken place...
...this point it is clear how much, subliminally or not, Giacometti has meant to Rothenberg. This probing for form through a web, a mist of approximate lines, so that the never-quite-final shape becomes a palimpsest of recorded attempts to fix it, echoes Giacometti's own anxiety before his subjects. How can the artist be sure, and make you sure, what is there? For Rothenberg the problem becomes worse, because she chooses subjects in movement, the opposite of Giacometti's hieratic stillness. It does not always come off, but when it does you are made sharply aware...