Word: everydayness
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...wife's latest escapade. An intruder who apparently had a key to her Miami Beach hotel room threatened to strangle her, but let her off when she promised not to call the cops. He did, however, make off with $200,000 worth of Candy's "everyday" jewels...
Steinberg's appeal is not so much that of the social or political satirist, although there are strong elements of both kinds of satire in his work, but of his uncanny ability to literalize our everyday notions into striking images...
...world is that of simple, usual things, torn from everyday context and tossed together flippantly into generalized space. There are letters: big, blocky, physical letters, and simple words mapped out in a landscape, drawn with the qualities of their meaning. "Yes" rolls downhill on wheels, about to strike the barrier of a gigantic "but." Years of prosperity are shown as labeled building stones, arranged in reverse pyramid on top of the single block "1933." A rank of businessmen march with one step across the dotted line separating "Monday" from "Tuesday...
...sense that a lot of this is what the surrealists tried to do but were never really able: create a world where the everyday is recognized as bizarre. As conventional painting becomes more devoid of "real world" content, popular forms must more and more assume the role of externalizing -- and parodying -- the way we look at the everyday world. What Steinberg shows us so well is that the way we see time, imagine geography, look at city streets or television images is as much caricature as the drawings he produces. Reality may seem as plain as the features...
Speculation about the far-out possibilities of science have always raised fascinating social implications. The new feeling is that so many of the obstables to what once was science fiction are now merely technical problems that will be solved in time. The everyday hygenics that have advanced the average lifespan 30 years in the last century pale beside the new methods of postponing death. Surgeons make daily use of ceramic and metal bones, synthetic arteries and electronic blood pressure regulators and bladder stimulators. Miraculous innovations that quickly have become almost commonplace suggest the great issudes medical ethics will be confronted...