Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Triangle. There was a religious, or at least numinous basis to nearly all of Kupka's imagery; even a strict geometrical abstraction like Untitled, 1931, retains in its big blue triangle a flicker of pointillist light that had been appearing in his work since he began studying the...
This is a parable about language and about abstraction. For an instant Calvino confronts the reader with an impossibility--a notion of distinctness apart from any form or reality to be distinguished--which is a familiar part of language as a system of abstractions from the world. At the same...
Economic policy is too important to be "left to economists," Dunlop said. Academic economics is by definition an abstraction he added.
Kawabata's story takes place in that ethereal realm that lies between abstraction and reality Both Otoko and Keiko are painters living through and for their art Otoko plans a painting called Ascension of an Infant as a redemptive memorial to her head baby
THE COMMON factor uniting all the characters in the story is itself an abstraction--a romantic novel, in which Oki had sought to immortalize his passion for Otoko. The novel was a work of love, and an immediate success. The book had made his career, had meant luxuries for the...