Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 of personal judgements and responses into the only pictorial medium the world has ever seen that can be free of them." Of all the photographs in the show, he lamented, virtually none were mirrors...
Moore wants buildings to "freshen one's perception of the familiar," rather than turn Pop into a sequence of quotations à la Venturi. He uses space with originality. It is not the "universal" grid-space, the abstract Raum-with-a-view of Bauhaus thought, but a choppily processional medium, full of ambiguities and kinks, stagy...
...Medium," said Gromyko...
...Youngbloods Gentleman's Club recently revived the defunct debut custom in this medium-sized city by promising to send the proceeds to some worthy cause. That first year, the new Natural History Museum received five thousand dollars and the Youngbloods retained eleven thousand to "cover costs." Tonight in the Bloodhound Room, the evening before P (for Presentation) Night, the Club is hosting cocktails and canapes for this year's class of nineteen debutantes and their parents. The girls, who have little in common beside their age, delicately probe each other's reasons for coming...
...occasion the hardboard choreographers show their unfamiliarity with Curry's medium, and a few of the numbers are hesitant and uncertain. Tharp's After All, which features Curry alone, seems curiously stilted, and Saddler's turn-of-the-century Palais de Glace, which involves the whole company, verges on the kind of ice spectacle Curry disdains...