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transmogrifyTo change into something completely different. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Considerable comment was engendered by William Kentridge's animated Tide Table (2003): the sands of the beach at Muizenberg on the Western Cape transmogrify into a kind of divinatory surface, in which we glimpse the unbearable tragedy and awe-inspiring nobility of a land in the age of AIDS, as even the white industrialist Soho Eckstein himself is drawn into the great seaside assemblage of persons and histories. For, if librarians again turn a blind eye to what is transpiring around them, then, in extremis, insidious forces and liberal colleagues could transmogrify their temples of thought into Information Centers beyond Krupskaya's wildest dreams--cacophonous, warehouse-like structures in which viewers sit staring at identical computer screens displaying what are no longer books while Big Brother or Little Sister, who is no longer a librarian, monitors the monitors. The choreographer's ability to transmogrify architectural spaces became even more apparent when viewing these two sites one after another; together they answered the question, "But can she succeed in creating such surprising vistas on a large scale, having achieved so much in a small one--and vice versa? |
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