Example sentences for: elderfield

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  • (The optical mechanisms arising from such tensions between central figures and partially hidden peripheral figures are a major subject of Elderfield's essay.)

  • John Elderfield, the curator in charge, has banished some of Bonnard's most popular and beguiling works--Provençal landscapes with red-roofed houses, windows looking out from laden breakfast tables, flowering trees--to the periphery of the show.

  • Elderfield thinks these bathroom pictures raise most insistently the problems of perception--peripheral vision, scanning rhythms, and so on--that for him are at the heart of Bonnard's art.

  • But all these "adventures of the optic nerve," as Bonnard calls them, were means, not--as Elderfield believes--ends.

  • Elderfield's ponderous and mechanistic catalog essay is filled with such insights as the following: "While the global rhythms have a pulsatile aspect owing to the regular bounce provided by the edge, which rebounds the gaze, the chasing rhythms have a more spasmodic aspect owing to the more extended and irregular scanpaths they follow."


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