2012年8月22日 星期三

pointillistically, Vanishing Point, minimalism

'Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir'

By ANDER MONSON
Reviewed by DAVID SHIELDS
Ander Monson's collection, in a tradition that has been described as the "lyric essay," pointillistically confronts puzzles of truth and identity.

  minimalism
(noun) An art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color.
Synonyms:reductivism
Usage:The sculpture—simply a perfect sphere—must have been created at the height of minimalism.

Minimal Art

A Critical Anthology

Gregory Battcock (Editor), Anne M. Wagner (Introduction)

Available worldwide
Paperback, 454 pages
ISBN: 9780520201477
August 1995
 
 
 
 

pointillistic

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pointillistic (comparative more pointillistic, superlative most pointillistic)
Positive
pointillistic

Comparative
more pointillistic

Superlative
most pointillistic
  1. Having a style marked by using many small, distinct points of color to form an image
    a pointillistic work of art
  2. (by extension) Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism
    • 2008 December 12, Jon Pareles, “Hey, Kids! Care for a Little Minimalism With Your Dance Grooves?”, The New York Times:
      Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and pointillistic guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions.

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