Word: essays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is a key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to the grader. The true master of the generality is the student who can write a ten page essay that means nothing at all to the writer, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...Modern Art called "Mirrors and Windows," an attempt was made to distinguish two ideas of what a photograph is: either "a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it...or a window, through which one might better know the world." (This from the show's catalogue essay, written by the museum's director of photography, John Szarkowski). In reviewing "Mirrors and Windows" for The New Republic, John Canaday wrote a reactionary two-part article entitled "Polluted Birthright." "The pollutant I am referring to," Canaday explained, "is the presence of the photographer in the pictures he takes, his intrusion...
...Connor and Lorraine Brown have put together a kind of family scrapbook, a montage of the Theatre Project. They have recovered and included long-forgotten Project "documents"--posters, picture and the like--as well as reminiscences by Theatre Project veterans. The book is loosely organized--a brief historical essay followed by some dozen and a half sections on individual productions. An intimate, insider's "feel" for the Project emerges, a feel for its diversity and its creativity, its struggles and its trials...
...Time Essay...
...photo essay probably will run six to eight pages, but whether the models will pose in the nude or receive centerfold attention remains undecided. "We have to be concerned about the stuffier East Coast audience," Chada said...