For visual shock, Showtime's movies display bodies that seem to melt, leaving gore on bones.
Visual shock and awe have become its most effective defensive weapon.
Immediate gratification is certainly part of the appeal, but so is the visual shock value.
Unfortunately for contemporary art consignors, the impact of a visual shock cannot be guaranteed to last forever.
In the great flow of polite clothing, the Diane Von Furstenberg look came as a visual shock.
Maybe, in fact, we are now immune to the visual shock of contemporary art on this most rigorously 19th century of squares.
It's both a personal and a visual shock — the camera, which has been quiet for so long, suddenly lurches after Wilkinson.
But for pure emotional and visual shock, the opening extended close-up of Jason Segel in "Jeff, Who Lives at Home".
Its rallying call is "psychedelic violence crime of visual shock", created by the band X Japan, has been adhered to by many other ostentatiously attired acts.
The visual shock profoundly affected painters who worked after him, from Rubens to Rembrandt, Velzquez and Vermeer, but its lasting impact was too much for posterity to bear.
The visual shock of Gascoigne's knee-high leap has only deepened with the litany of agonies endured (and infl icted) by the protagonists.
