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spectacular
a lavishly produced performance


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But rather than decry its spectacularity, we should note here that the double allure implicit in conventions of art's unconventionality was on full display: In the cavernous hall of the armory, Young had a dozen professional bikers burn rubber on a 72-by-128-foot plywood floor, stripping off layers of black paint to reveal a fluorescent orange, yellow, and pink undercoat, thereby creating an interlacing network of lines strongly reminiscent of Brice Marden's signature loops.
Custom made by Griffin, Tim / Artforum International
Here’s how it’s explained in the program notes: “The technological spectacularity is countered by the ultra-low tech materiality of bare mattresses upon which dancing bodies confront one another in swift and complex kinetic disfigurations.
Enchanting Balanchine; Empty Feld; Phony Forsythe by Robert Gottlieb / The New York Observer
Expressionists argue for the necessity to reinstitute spectacularity by returning to the origins of drama and borrowing their expressive resources.
A ghost in the expressionist jungle of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones by Manuel, Carme / African American Review
 
 
 
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