Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s

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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology.

Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in postwar culture. The accompanying rapid technological transformations, including the advent of computers and automation processes, produced for many an acute sense of historical unknowing; the seemingly accelerated pace of life began to outstrip any attempts to make sense of the present. Lee sees the attitude of 1960s art to time as a historical prelude to our current fixation on time and speed within digital culture. Reflecting upon the 1960s cultural anxiety about temporality, she argues, helps us historicize our current relation to technology and time.

After an introductory framing of terms, Lee discusses such topics as "presentness" with repect to the interest in systems theory in 1960s art; kinetic sculpture and new forms of global media; the temporality of the body and the spatialization of the visual image in the paintings of Bridget Riley and the performance art of Carolee Schneemann; Robert Smithson's interest in seriality and futurity, considered in light of his reading of George Kubler's important work The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things and Norbert Wiener's discussion of cybernetics; and the endless belaboring of the present in sixties art, as seen in Warhol's Empire and the work of On Kawara.

Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s.(Book review): An article from: The Art Bulletin

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James Meyer
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Title: Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s.(Book review)
Author: James Meyer
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Date: December 1, 2006
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Fast times.(Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s)(Book Review) : An article from: Art Journal

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Fast times.(Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s)(Book Review) : An article from: Art Journal
Robert Slifkin
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Title: Fast times.(Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s)(Book Review)
Author: Robert Slifkin
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Date: March 22, 2005
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"Darren"
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Title: Everything Is Coming Up Roses, Isn't It?(Review) (book review)
Author: Steven E. Landsburg
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Gordon Parks, legendary photographer & filmmaker dies at 93.(CENSUS)(Obituary): An article from: Jet

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Title: Gordon Parks, legendary photographer & filmmaker dies at 93.(CENSUS)(Obituary)
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20 ways to track a tiger: Exploring with filmmaker, photographer Carol Amore

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Carol Amore
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The Filmmaker's Handbook
Edward and Steven Ascher Pincus
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Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker

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An exhaustive overview of a prolific and creative genius

Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker
Tony Williams
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Part One of this book focuses on Larry Cohen's films and television work. Part Two consists of an extensive interview with Cohen and several of his collaborators.

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An exhaustive overview of a prolific and creative genius.......1997-10-22

Tony Williams does the world of film study an amazing service with this book, covering Larry Cohen's work as writer/director/producer with an infectious enthusiasm. The interviews (with Cohen, as well as cast and crew from his films) are particularly enlightening: Actor Michael Moriarty insisting that a film retrospective of his work include Cohen's "Q: The Winged Serpent," which he considers one of his best performances; Cohen describing his tactics of "guerilla filmmaking," in one case filming Eric Roberts and Janine Turner amidst a sea of oblivious New Yorkers during a frenzied lunch hour by hiding the camera and crew across the street. This book is full of priceless information, as well as Williams' perceptive observations and analysis on the whole of Cohen's creative output.

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Divine obfuscation has a purpose. This is the classic that ushered in so many imitators, imitators who did not get "it." "It" is slack, the desiderata that cannot be desired and is only attainable through "Bob," the evil god/male model who founded the Church of the SubGenius without bothering to "exist." If you read this holy book properly, you will learn to "pull the wool over your own eyes." While this volume may seem hilarious, it's also an incredibly adept deconstruction of religion in general and the human impulse to believe in and follow anyone who promises to give their lives meaning and structure. Plus, it's the only place to find the information you need to survive when the bad alien gods come out of the sky to kill, enslave, and entertain us. If you don't already have a copy, then hand in your hipness ID card and hang your head in shame.

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Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now.

First, there was The Gilgamesh.

Then... the Bhagavad-Gita

Then... the Torah, the New Testament, the Koran

Then... the Book of Mormon, Dianetics, I'm OK You're OK.

And now...The Book of the Subgenius (How to Prosper in the Coming Weird Times)

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Amazing Prophecies.......2007-05-12

This is another indespensible work from the Subgenius Foundation. It contains many predictions that have all come to pass! Both astounding and creepy. Could it all be TRUE? Much better than anything Ron L Hubbard ever put out.

Finally, a religion for idiots........2007-05-08

It is noteworthy that this book is irreverent toward Jesus Christ and Christians, makes a mockery of conspiracy theorists about masons and jews and has otherwise nothing to say beyond that. Note that it is not irreverent toward jews. And note the publisher is Simon and Shuster. He who laughs last laughs best. If I were uncharitable, I would enjoy a good laugh when these fools are in hell. After all, I highly doubt that they will find hell a laughing matter since they make a mockery of the free gift of salvation in Jesus Christ. I know they will be more unnerved by what I just said here than I will be of what they said in this stupid book.

In Dobbstown, the Book reads You.......2006-12-01

It's a snapshot of a living beast that constantly deconstructs itself, an accretion of symbolism from "outsider art" in all media, to the end of creating a stance that fulfills the function of religion, but has an unmistakable DIY feel, really bad "well shoot, I can do THAT" DIY, but, here's the kicker, it elevates unselfconscious exuberance as the greatest good which is what makes this really the most dangerous of heresies because in the grinning guise of a clip art dude with a pipe, an image endlessly reproduced and reworked and remixed and plastered on walls and etched into microchips and (verbed) (preposition of direction) (everywhere) it seeks, uh, damn, the PAIN, can't think, PLEEAZE, "BOB" could you hand me some more THEM "PILS"????

THE LOWEST PRICE FOR THIS BOOK TODAY IS 666.......2006-07-13

be afraid

be very very afraid

(and if you get THAT JOKE, then get this book!)

ironic parodic presentation of AMerica's empty calorie white bread suburban nonsense spirituality of the lying bush

Finally a belief system even I can believe in!!!.......2006-05-12

If your a abnormal freakazoid creep like I am you get eternal salvation and a ride in cool saucers at the end of the world with hot alien sex goddesses. Only if you become a Doktor and High Preist like I am. If your a pink conformist square who is a heel licker "Bob" hates you and your going to die. Your soul will be harvested for the equilvalent of a 10 year old huffing his model airplane glue for a short high by the elder gods. If you want to figure out what the hell I'm talking about buy this book then send 30 bucks to become saved by "Bob" all Yetis apply please and pinks we want your money because it is green once you become a warrior preist buy Revelation X. Find out the power of bulldada and most of all slack that is saving so many freaks lives!!! Praise "Bob" and hate em' too. I'm AKA High Pootate of the Farternal odor of Stupdee. Kill the Conspiracy!

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As celebrity biographer McGilligan tells it in Clint, Eastwood's career is the classic tale of power and fame corrupting: a small-town boy (who actually grew up in San Francisco) comes to L.A. with a wide grin and an easy manner; is remade by agents and directors (Sergio Leone said, that at first, "Eastwood had only two expressions: with or without a hat"); becomes one of the richest stars in Hollywood; and stops smiling--except wolfishly. McGilligan depicts him as a master of betrayal, casually discarded friendships, and alleged extramarital affairs (which seem to shock the author), complete with alleged children out of wedlock.

Readable though kiss-and-tell breathless, McGilligan's book sometimes overlooks Clint's full significance as a crafter of classics. He should remember the sage words of the French critic who observed, "If you love the films, nothing else matters." --Gregory McNamee

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Like The Man With No Name, one of his most famous roles, Clint Eastwood has always had an aura of tight-lipped mystery. He has long been an internationally famous star, first of television and then of the movies, and he has more recently joined a select group of Oscar-winning actor-directors, including Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen.

But the real Clint has always been an enigma-until now. With this gripping and scrupulously researched biography, Patrick McGilligan, one of America's top film writers, has revealed the man behind the indelible image.

Throughout his remarkable near-half century career, Eastwood has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous-from Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" through Hang Em High and Dirty Harry to In the Line of Fire and Unforgiven. No star is more the hero to his audience: a symbol of simple solutions, law & order, and rebellion against bureaucracy. But offscreen, Clint Eastwood has always been an arch manipulator: of women, friends and colleagues, publicity and finance.

Always even-handed, managing to steer clear of both fawning over and unfair excoriation of its fascinating subject, this biography sheds definitive light on Clint as actor, director and human being.

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No Million Dollar Bio.......2007-07-29

If this biography was a boxing match, the author, Patrick McGilligan, would have been disqualified in the first round for low blows for its condescending tone and tabloid style. Being that as it may, I came into the book thinking there would be major revelations based on the other Amazon reviews I'd read. Hardly. A major Hollywood star of Eastwood's caliber had affairs behind his wife's back? Shocking! Eastwood's style of acting is "wooden"? No way! The only juicy tidbit is that Eastwood was physically abusive toward women. One story depicts him smacking his wife around in front of some friends. The only problem is, this isn't backed up by multiple sources, as the other reviews would have you believe. It's the word of one person, as are the majority of quotes and anecdotes from this biography. Some attributions even have an US Weekly feel to them, saying things like, "A friend added..." Contradictions abound as well. McGilligan claims Eastwood wouldn't allow the characters he played to be badly injured or beaten up to give his screen persona a sense of invincibility. Yet a few pages later he discusses, at length, Eastwood's first major American film "Hang `Em High," where Eastwood's character Cooper is hanged from a tree and left for dead "before the credits roll" and then later shot so many times in a bar fight that the director said it was rather preposterous that Cooper survived. Not to mention Cooper spends a rather long sequence of the film recuperating from the shooting with the aid of, say it isn't so, a woman! This is invincibility, Patrick? I am an Eastwood fan and I hope McGilligan's claims about physical abuse toward women are false. Since he provides little evidence to support these claims, and since Eastwood's films have always championed strong female characters---long before mainstream Hollywood caught on to this idea---I will choose to believe that this wasn't the case. It's true no Eastwood biography written prior to this one was the least bit confrontational or critical of the star, so I understand McGilligan's angle. But if you come to challenge an American icon like that, you better fight a good, clean fight. You can't put lead in your gloves or repeatedly punch someone in the groin and expect to be taken seriously by anyone other than the casual fight fan.

Clint Fans Beware !.......2007-06-01

Patrick McGilligan's book "Clint: The Life and Legend" presents the reader with a negative account of the life of Clint Eastwood from beginning to end.

One can't help but wonder what was the motivation for McGilligan's vilification of one of the most popular living movie giants.

Little is said of the millions of moviegoers to whom Clint has given unquantifiable enjoyment in timeless works.

McGilligan's biography is unauthorised, which is no surprise after the first few pages.

The attention given to movies varies from too much information to very scant detail. "Where Eagles Dare", for instance, hardly gets a mention.

What a pity to waste an obviously good writing talent in such an unbalanced criticism.

Clint fans should definitely give this a miss.

Truth or Fiction.......2006-12-30

If you really like Clint then don't bother with this bio. McGilligan paints Eastwood as a total bastard with no positive character attributes whatsoever. It's pretty much a total character assasination. There is some interesting info about his early career but there is an aweful lot of negative. Maybe that was McGilligan's intention to focus only on the negative and present Eastwood as a sod.

is "dirty harry" a "rotten clint"? .......2006-11-03

john steinbeck said that all good books can be described in one sentence.
following that reasoning, i'd say this: "clint eastwood is not a good person".

according to the 4 year research by the author, eastwood always treated women like garbage, is given to attacks of fury, is an egomaniac, a sloppy director, lazy, holds grudges, is a sadist, is stupid, is a total coward, has no character, is a shmuck... etc.

clint was a sort of a teen idol of mine, i've seen all his films. according to the author, clint's career and myth are a triumph of publicity, of projecting a false image to a worldwide audience.
we all know that people under the spotlight of fame are exposed to false accusations, etc. but even steve mcqueen, with all his faults, had, according to at least 2 biographies, a very human side. according to this book, clint is a block of ice without remission. sometimes, it feels the author is not talking about a human being.

like other reviewers said, the author of the book may have a grudge against clint. but many of the episodes and stories contained in the book are checked and confirmed by 2 or 3 sources, on the record. either this is an extremely violent personal attack or, if it's the truth, well, clint eastwood is a despicable individual.

the author writes well, it's a very readable book. but it's not pleasant to know that dirty harry is, in fact, a "rotten clint".

there are 2 misinformed reviewers here. one says clint sued. but the book doesen't say he beat his ex wife. the book is still in circulation and the judge apparently decided that way. and there is another book by sondra locke which confirms many of the facts presented here. other reviewer says that the author of the book didn't get good reviews. i'd advise him to read the back cover, with praise from prestigious newspapers and magazines. someone also says here that it's an attack on eastwood political values and the author of the book is biased. eastwood supported nixon all through the watergate. any people with any sense of decency or any degree of honesty couldn't ever support nixon's activities in the watergate. need i say more?...

Disturbing yet necessary-Clint's still Clint though..........2005-04-12

I've read this book 4 or 5 times now and I still find it fascinating. Though there are some errors in it, it's still tarnishes Clint's reputation-somewhat. Despite being overtly negative, and sad for those of us who are big fans, Clint will still be Clint to the vast majority. I find it disappointing that he fathered so many kids that he wasn't really a father to, and that he could distance himself from people who were once his friends without so much as a backward glance, but the quote at the end of the book says it all, really. It says: "If you like Clint's films, that's all that matters". I agree, sort of. I just feel let down knowing that someone I admire so much has so many deep character flaws.

Clint: The Life and Legend of Clint Eastwood

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Patrick McGilligan
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Clint: The Life and Legend. .(Book Review): An article from: Cineaste

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Clint: The Life and Legend. .(Book Review): An article from: Cineaste
Robert Cashill
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Clint the Life & Legend :Eastwood
Patrick Mcgilligan
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Foreword and Preface make the book worth buying

Excellent book

One of the best instructional books ever written

A must read introduction to "42" for any non-Texan novice

Winning 42: Strategy & Lore of the National Game of Texas
Dennis Roberson
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San Antonio Conservation Society Award Winner

A perennial bestseller and a must for beginners and strategists alike

There are two types of people in Texas: those who play 42 and those who need to learn. Winning 42 is written for both. A team game that no one tires of playing, 42 relies on neither luck nor memory. Skill and strategy definitely separate the best from the rest.

Yet those who think they've mastered the game will find challenge in the advanced strategy chapters and fascination in the history and lore. Many who've grown up with 42 are nonetheless surprised by its uniquely Texan history, reaching back nearly a century and a quarter.

Beginners will find easy instruction in all the fundamentals, from the intricacies of bidding a hand, or setting an opponent, to the challenge of the exciting 84 hand, and can proceed to advanced strategies at their own pace.

Replete with championship statistics and stories gathered from veteran players and strategists—including many celebrities from astronauts to presidents—Winning 42 illumines a cherished tradition that links Texans from all walks of life.

Played casually by those who enjoy socializing or intently by those who relish the logic of each domino played, 42 is perhaps the most widely acknowledged cultural expression in Texas.

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Foreword and Preface make the book worth buying.......2007-04-25

This is a wonderful book for out-of-state Texans. You find yourself saying, "Yeah, I remember 42 scenes and parties like that growing up as well!" The book has a very thorough description of straight 42 and its rules.

I must say that I found the author's total dislike for and two-page description of Nel-o very disappointing. He even says, "it is an eminently uninteresting way to play, requiring little or no strategy". He goes on to say, "In fact, to play Nel-o, there is absolutely nothing in any of the preceding chapters that is any use at all. There is no strategy."

This is true for the game of Sevens and would be mostly true for Nel-o where, without further variation, doubles would always be high in their suit. What isn't covered at all in this book is the option in playing a Nel-o hand of stating how doubles are to be played. The author only states that "many Nel-o players will allow the bidder the option of declaring doubles high, low, or even their own suit. This inconsistency makes it just that much easier, unchallenging, and uninteresting to play Nel-o."

Many groups that I have played in contain a large number of players not familiar with Nel-o, but of the groups that play Nel-o, I've never run into people that did NOT play all three versions of how doubles are called - High in their suit, Low in their suit, or as a separate suit. This ability to call how doubles will be played for the hand, in my opinion, makes Nel-o very interesting and requires skillful play.

As a forty-year old Texan that has played 42 for thirty years now, 42 is one of my favorite games as long as you can play Nel-o and call your doubles. I have tried "Straight 42" on numerous occasions, particularly with groups not familiar with Nel-o, and I have to say that it is one of the most boring games I've ever played and I can see where it would have been created by a 12- and 14-year old in Trappe Spring, TX in 1887 as the book states.

I was also wrankled by the statement that most Nel-o players would be totally destroyed in a straight 42 tournament for lack of skill. I contend that the opposite is even more true - a veteran straight 42 player with the rules explained to him for Nel-o and the three doubles variations would likely get destroyed in a Nel-o game, because players allowing Nel-o bidding play straight much of the time, whereas straight players never play Nel-o.

Overall, I'm glad this book was published, but it just goes to show you what I've seen at 42 parties - just like with languages, there are different dialects, so to speak, of 42 and you will probably enjoy playing more with other players that "speak" yours.

I give this book 4 stars because I appreciate that it was made. Lots of folks play Nel-o, however, and this book would be better titled: "Winning STRAIGHT 42" due to its lack of coverage of the three Nel-o bidding options for doubles.

Excellent book.......2001-05-02

Excellent book. Very well explained. I never played this version of Dominoes and I really like to do it. I like to contact Mr. Roberson in order to share some thoughts. My emails are: gtejeira@panamacom.com gtejeira66@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Gabriel Tejeira

One of the best instructional books ever written.......1999-03-21

Dennis did a great job on this one. This one is perfect for a beginner, novice, or so-called "expert". He explains the 42 terms perfectly assuming nothing. I recommend this to anyone who wants to learn a great new game. My hat's off to you, Dennis.

A must read introduction to "42" for any non-Texan novice.......1997-10-25

When I moved to Texas two years ago, many of my new friends played an unfamiliar game of "42". I hesitated joining their parties since "42" meant nothing to me. Then I found Dennis Roberson's book, "Winning 42". After reading cover to cover my confidence built and I am now part of the party and looking forward to the next session. The book does contain a few 'typos', but they force you to think and reflect on the game. If you want to learn "42" and its history, this is a MUST READ. book.

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