Word: whitney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spectacle 2001 was packing in aficionados at movie theaters months before Apollo 8, the film gained a prophetic impact after man reached the moon. Even among the scientific community, such astonishing celestial phenomena as supernovae and "black holes" have become a subject for metaphysical conjecture. Harvard Astronomer Charles A. Whitney, writing in his 1971 book The Discovery of Our Galaxy, suggests that black holes might be "the passageways to another universe," a possibility that throws him back on the language of religion. "When I discuss such subjects with my friends and family," Whitney writes, "I feel as though I were...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, "Ritual in Transfigured Time" by Maya Deren. "Nightcats" and "Thigh Line Lyre Triangular" by Stan Brakhage, "Wait" by Ernie Gehr. "Institutional Quality" by Landow, "66" and "70" by Breer. "Valentine de ias Sierras" by Baillie, "Catalog" and "Permutations" by John Whitney...
...spirit. Majesty and strength shine in St. John's Abbey and University of Collegeville, Minn. The project's bell tower, a mighty raised slab of raw concrete, is among the best pieces of sculptural architecture this side of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp church. Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with upper gallery floors expressed in three cantilevers that extend further and further out from the building, has heft, urbanity and presence. But sometimes the effect is of too much strength, as in a muscle-bound cantilevered lecture hall at New York University. The Housing and Urban Development Department...
...covered cup, saucer and spoon. Yet they are not mere footnotes to Surrealism. Samaras has a way of undercutting, or predicting, his more "mainstream" contemporaries; in 1961, for instance, he laid 16 square textured tiles flat on the ground, four by four, as a sculpture. In the Whitney, it looks like a waggish parody of Carl Andre's floor pieces-until you remember Andre's sculptures were made years later...
...mind I was giving myself the honor of making my living space as important as any thing else, before posterity had the chance to do it or not do it"), giving his mess the dignity of a historical style, like a period room at the Metropolitan. Part of his Whitney retrospective is devoted to Autophotographs-Polaroid snapshots Samaras made of his own body. Bizarre, candid and mostly unreproducible (by now, Samaras must have the most lavishly documented penis in Western art), they constitute a veritable epic of narcissism. "I could tune up or tone down emotion. I could move...