Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For the first time in his life, Kissinger descended into a 90-ft. silo and gazed at a 75,000-lb. Minuteman III, the newest and largest American ICBM (range: 7,000 miles). After watching a simulated firing in an underground command center, Kissinger emerged and remarked that the world...
This brings us to the third section of The Human Prospect, and probably the most devastating--"Socio-Economic Systems." First, Heilbroner's definition of capitalism: It is an economic order "marked by the private ownership of the means of production vested in a minority class called 'capitalists' and by a...
One of the paradoxes about De Kooning the draftsman is that his pencil, in movement, is always describing contour, even though the shapes one infers from the contours are rarely closed or fixed. His early pencil portrait drawings from 1940-41, done 15 years after he smuggled himself into America...
His present retrospective of 156 prints at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 30) consists almost wholly of landscape photographs. He has appropriated Yosemite and some of the more picturesque and wind-blown surfaces of Northern California and the Southwest as his own, by territorial right...
The difficulties of accepting crafts as pure art are exemplified by the exhibit. Although the pieces are beautiful and sensitively mounted on cork slabs, they are ultimately only exercises in one method of making pottery--the wheel method. The wheel method operates on much the same principle as a lathe...