Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prophetic Figure. Seventy years ago, Monet posed all the queries that are central to informal, painterly abstraction while working on his haystacks, cathedral facades and lily ponds-and solved most of them. He is the Cézanne of Abstract Expressionism, like him a prophetic figure who was much greater...
Thus his wooden pieces eight years ago, like Untitled, 1963 (see color page), were abstract, which was nothing new-but their kind of abstraction was. It was peculiarly inert and casual looking. This, it became clear, was because Judd has no interest in "composition"-the play between major and minor...
After roasting the proudly remote metaphysics of Emerson's essay Self-Reliance, after deploring the enchanted navel gazing of Whitman's Song of Myself, Professor Anderson confronts James' The Golden Bowl. The Jacobin crime, as he draws it up, was to take European culture, abstract it, then...
Doris Lessing is prepared to assume-as others have before her-that in a world gone mad, those whom the world calls mad may be the only sane ones. What she has forfeited-and the loss has to be enormous for any novelist-is the scale of humanity. To the...
"The Abstraction that we call the University is certainly real enough to have an obligation to be a good corporate citizen of the community in which it lives.