Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / In reading your article on Winthrop Sargeant, I was once again reminded of critics' serious misunderstanding of twelve-tone and serial music. The twelve-tone system does not merely express violence but rather expresses the value of abstraction. If we feel violent when listening to a work by...
It would be hard to think of a less "American" painter than Bailey, 41, who teaches at Yale, where he had earlier studied under Josef Albers. Modest in scale and completely unrhetorical, his pictures seem European-the work, perhaps, of a less mature Balthus, minus the overtones of perverse eroticism...
Born in Pittsburgh in 1924, Pearlstein gravitated to New York, where he rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit to Italy, he began to realize that he was still at bottom a realist draftsman. "I did not mean to become the...
Not only is the film a mixture of sentiment and politics, but also a mixture of silent and sound. One large gag based on sound--gurgling stomachs embarrassed Chaplin and a minister's wife when they are forced into close quarters--falls on its face. Chaplin's use of the...
Marx's chiding would focus on the crucial point in America's accelerated spirited decline: people must run the political process themselves. It cannot be separated from their material lives; it must not be an abstraction, but a reality for each individual.