So was another historical survey, "Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2004, which cast comparable illumination on Latin American modernism.
In one room, hanging linen drums cast an illumination soft and diffuse but not dim perfect for having a conversation about, say, a Sotheby's auction or the kids' tuition.
This drama is marvelously amplified by Jonathan Belcher's lighting: two large mobile units that he and Mr. Steffensen constantly manipulate to cast harsh illumination, flashing brightness or deep shadow on the dancers.
In one room, hanging linen drums cast an illumination soft and diffuse but not dim — perfect for having a conversation about, say, a Sotheby's auction or the kids' tuition.
Their Cast Light, for instance, is a light bulb encased in a solid block of gypsum concrete that allows illumination to escape only through rough cuts in the material.
Those brief scenes definitively mark the film's place in history and cast a dark illumination on all the discussions that precede it and that follow.
The dark lettering on the gauges is set against a soft, silvery background, and the instruments have a pleasant, greenish cast under nighttime illumination.
Whether comic or tragic, the conclusion casts a retrospective illumination on the life that has led to it.
But the album, which was produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, casts its own illumination, intense yet rarely harsh.
Here things flare singly, a succession of lighted matches, and do not cast a more general illumination.
