Word: visualizes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cover of TIME magazine in April, "Peanuts" was embraced as the embodiment of the fundamental wisdom of the day. The strip and its characters had gone from being a campus phenomenon in the late 1950s to a mainstream cultural powerhouse. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most American of concepts, happiness, found their way into Webster's dictionary and "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
...painting what he knew, neither more nor less, he became the standard-bearer of visual truth to a generation of French intellectuals...
From highbrow art to mass-market gewgaws, transparency--a visual trend popularized earlier by Apple's coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy...
...Buckingham '03, originally a child of sunny Laguna Beach, Calif., now spends a significant portion of her time in the basement-the one under Sever, to be more precise, the home of Harvard's video and film labs. But for Buckingham, who describes her video sub-concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies as "fun" and "something I just love to do," the subterranean hours are worth...
There have been good book surveys of California art, led off more than 20 years ago by Peter Plagens' Sunshine Muse. But until now no institution has taken on the daunting task of mounting an exhibition that surveys the visual culture of California in relation to a century's worth of social changes in that huge, dynamic and almost crazily heterodox state. That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works...