Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most visitors were merely tired by this exhibition. It was overcrowded, and the same sort of thing had been done before and better by the Europeans who originated it. A few temperate and tolerably fresh efforts were, nevertheless, visible. One was an Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite...
Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da...
Familiar with such devices of abstraction from reality as rapid changes of time, place and angle in the cinema, plain citizens are still unreconciled with corresponding devices in painting like Cubism, which Braque above all living painters most clearly represents. The purpose of The Yellow Cloth is simply to show...
"Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic...
Warned Justice Sutherland, reading the minority dissent: "Freedom is not a mere intellectual abstraction. ... It is an intensely practical reality. . . . When applied to the Press the term freedom is not to be narrowly confined. ... If freedom of the press does not include the right to adopt and pursue a policy...