Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS DEVOTION to cerebral abstraction and the life of the studio became increasingly hardened as Degas moved past his fiftieth year and turned more bitter and misanthropic. His eyesight was failing, and his inability to work in less than full light led him to turn increasingly to sculpture. Profound disillusionment...
The uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless...
Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar have compiled a bilingual Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry that transcends such simplistic, patronizing views of the East. The book is a collection of free verse written both in response to and outside the mainstream of modern Western literature, and the poems avoid the...
Aside from these milestones in Beckett's course through the variety of literary forms--like Joyce, he never uses an identical form twice--this anthology provides a valuable service in printing Beckett's early essay on Joyce's Work in Progress (later known as Finnegan's Wake), "Dante...Bruno. Vice...
Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time...