Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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So, apparently do the American people We are left with the spectacle of the world's most powerful nation democratically deciding to grind a much smaller country into the dust While American men were dying the people of the United States wrestled with the life and death question. Should we...
There are moments. I suspect of each person's life in which, in his or her own mind that person seems caught in a melodramatic situation. For me this was one. As I listened, one level of my mind filed through my repertoire of intellectual challenges to the student's...
With the coming of the railroad in 1880, trading posts sprang up throughout the Navajo territory. Traders supplied German-made Saxony yarns and synthetic dyes, and the Indians developed a series of new designs in which intense colors were juxtaposed against one another. The primary motif became a radiating diamond...
Humor. In Hockney's most recent painting, even the elaborate ambiguities have dropped away, leaving an exhibition of (almost) normal genre painting and landscape. Some of the humor remains. One painting looks like an orthodox New York abstraction, with a plane of blue punctuated by a red geometric circle...
The book is not without drawbacks. Its price is prohibitive for any woman who is neither a librarian nor fabulously wealthy. The editors have neglected to include an index of contributing biographers, thus preventing easy cross-reference or any evaluation of the balance of male and female scholars, (though I...