Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These "bitch goddesses" outraged yet captivated the public taste at the time, perhaps because they were essentially familiar, looking nostalgically backward to Picasso's baleful demoiselles and George Grosz's Weimar whores. But looking backward in turn, most critics now find far more significant the abstract compositions that De Kooning executed between 1945 and 1950, before he immortalized his Women...
...petition states that academic freedom consists of "free inquiry and discussion," implying an abstract battleground where all ideas somehow fight it out. But is academic freedom really an abstract fight? Isn't it rather a procedure by which the Harvard Corporation extends its protection to certain people to "assure the inviolability of...all duly approved courses" (i.e., whatever the Corporation approves is absolutely protected, no matter what is its content, ideas, or its effects...
...mainly shows is that artists feel compelled to satirize the status quo. In this sense, the stage seems curiously akin to 1953. That was the year when Robert Rauschenberg set the stage for pop with his own contribution to the "art for art's sake" genre: erasing an Abstract Expressionist drawing by Willem de Kooning...
...before the shutdown, he set energetically to work to bring the Atheneum more up to date in art history. Conspicuously displayed in the new galleries and elsewhere were some of his acquisitions: Tony Smith's Amaryllis, Cezanne's Portrait of a Child, an important group of five Abstract Expressionist paintings, plus works by Pissarro, Schiele and Manet...
...triumphal enthusiasm of Boston's new artists' groups rebounds in the gallery. Groups like the Boston Studio Coalition, Art and Technology Inc., and the Institute of Contemporary Art know that they are firm in their grasp. Finally, one is comfortable with the heirs of Abstract Expressionism, all of them. We are at last joyfully in our own century...