Lucas once displayed a cigarette-wrapped motorbike helmet on a burnt-out armchair, an image that made you think of kids killed on motorbikes and their granddads going up in smoke - a desolate pulp fiction about sex, death and class.
After looking at sample screen-saver images of himself lounging in a black armchair (the images will be available for download on his Web site), he and the Web team discussed how to promote "Nod Your Head," a rousing rock tune on "Memory Almost Full".
A modular aluminum frame outlines a few deceptively quiet images: a wheeled armchair; Hamlet sitting in the armchair, reading; three video monitors facing out into the theatre and replicating bits and pieces of the actor and the stage; a wide stepped platform, stage left; and, behind it all, a large movie screen on which the curtain is about to rise on Richard Burton's "Hamlet".
But it remains a tough sell to a punch-drunk public of armchair activists jaded by hazy images of Sally Struthers pleading for children with swollen bellies and flies in their noses while sitting right next to them.
Projected over an armchair draped with white cloth, the image of a sleeping man's closed fist alternates with old newsreel clips showing manic scenes of city life, heavy industry and war, all accompanied by rousing music.
Some of the paintings and sculptures in Mr. Lauder's collection were particularly radical for their time, like Picasso's "Woman in an Armchair (Eva)," the artist's 1913-14 image of his mistress Eva Gouel, in which he translated the female body into his own Cubist language.
The term "armchair travel," calls to mind the quaint image of sitting in a well worn easy chair within the halo of a brass reading lamp, dog-eared book in hand.
He draws an image of concentric circles around an armchair, a kind of comfort zone.
Pillows depicting a graphic image of the camera also dot armchairs around the property.
Then she sits down in an armchair and stares at the Modigliani sketch — the very image that opened the opera.
