Word: abstractionism
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"Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic...
Warned Justice Sutherland, reading the minority dissent: "Freedom is not a mere intellectual abstraction. ... It is an intensely practical reality. . . . When applied to the Press the term freedom is not to be narrowly confined. ... If freedom of the press does not include the right to adopt and pursue a policy...
What a Picasso abstraction is to a billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U...
The Persian view of an object and the aim in painting differs most from the view and aim of the West, in being naturally abstract. This abstraction as applied to a picture is vividly shown in four paintings from the early 14th century, illustrations from a Shah Nama, "The Book...
Another insight into Persian painting may be gained from a portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a...