The concept recalls the work of the London architect Cedric Price in its educational slant, its emphasis on access and its transformation of disconnected, underutilized resources into organized social systems.
While the minor cannot convey the full scope of city planning, various combinations of courses in the minor program can, we feel, augment a major program with a particular slant or emphasis on planning issues or processes.
The work has a French slant and an emphasis on 20th-century achievements in the fields of science and technology, political and social economy, and the social sciences.
Is there a different emphasis or slant to the story depending on what source or agency is reporting?
Their stories can be told and retold, the delightful familiarity spiced by a new emphasis, a new slant, a new splinter from the bottom of the barrel.
The slant is toward the conceptual and the theory-driven, with particular emphasis on appropriation and accumulation — all brought to bear on the idea that much contemporary photography and video is haunted by the past, often by its own recent history.
Hip-hop's emphasis on language, its often harsh realism and political slant (or, conversely, its blatant political incorrectness), its dense collaging of appropriated fragments and borrowed cultural references -- all have correlatives in the work of visual artists throughout the 1980's and 90's, from Sigmar Polke to Barbara Kruger to Kara Walker.
The slant is toward the conceptual and the theory-driven, with particular emphasis on appropriation and accumulation all brought to bear on the idea that much contemporary photography and video is haunted by the past, often by its own recent history.
"Our emphasis is on being the best family amusement park, that's our slant -- but we still have to be somewhat competive, although not with a place like Great Adventure".
Simone Forti, Slant Board, 1961.
