Word: abstractionism
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But maps are just the beginning. The entire institution of travel is undergoing a rapid phase of abstraction. We are a generation that has never known what it means to reach a far off destination by passing through every point in between. Mass, rapid, modern transit means a loss of...
One day, no doubt, we’ll have teleportation devices. Maybe they’ll look like telephone booths, or perhaps they’ll resemble the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender...
“The great thing is, people actually do it,” says Lehrer-Graiwer. The pipes have been arranged from everything from a straight monochromatic row to a carefully balanced abstraction to spelling out the word “art.”
From the ancient Greek Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre to the latest designer frocks in the shops of Avenue Montaigne, Paris remains the world capital of beauty. And this spring, half a dozen Paris museums are offering a sweeping survey of artistic beauty through the centuries, from medieval...
The Walkmen sound achingly lonely, but underneath the forlorn abstraction of Bows and Arrows exists a strong sense of worth and grandiose awareness that saves them from ever falling into the grating woe-is-me whine that drowns lesser bands.