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Friday, March 2, 2007

Friday March 2, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 am
Today's birthdays:

Jennifer Jones,
film star and arts patron;

Tom Wolfe, author of
The Painted Word.

"Hunt for the best."
Norton Simon 

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Cover detail,
soundtrack recording
of the Jennifer Jones film
"Angel, Angel, Down We Go"

The girl's left eye in the above
portrait illustrates a remark
  in yesterday's New York Times
on a figure in a painting:

"His head recedes into shadow, so you barely see his face. But a tiny fleck of white in his eye, a light that kindles his reawakening, brings him to life. It’s what Roland Barthes, the French critic, liked to call a punctum, the spot, marking time, that burns an image into memory."

 (This remark, by Michael Kimmelman,
comes with a headline–

Lights! Darks! Action! Cut!  
Maestro of Mise-en-Scène
  

— that seems to have been inspired
by Tom Wolfe's prose style.)

For further details, see
Barthes's Punctum,
by Michael Fried.

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