Word: abstractionism
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Most surprisingly absent from Opus Posthumous is the monumental and idiosyncratic "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction." Stevens outlines his perfect poetics with instructions such as "it must be abstract," and then taunts us with glistening seascapes and fragrant, ripe fruits. The prime difficulty and import of Stevens' work lies here...
Hours later Wall Street was in full retreat. The global economy, once an abstraction to most people, had shown up front and center to deliver the bad news. Investors, fearing that the earnings of large U.S. companies exposed to Asia would suffer, began to sell. On Thursday the market dropped...
Some groups were "not so comfortable about coming out and saying, 'Free Taiwan'--they didn't feel comfortable being so forthright," says Rabgey, adding that "when we talk about the Chinese government, its such an abstraction. This isn't about the Chinese people at all."
Art historians divide Khmer sculpture into three long periods, starting in the 6th century to 8th century A.D., when its forms and imagery arose from Indian roots. These early images appear fully formed, without any of the archaic crudity that normally attends the birth of a style. They can be...
Pynchon vividly recounts the dangers and struggles Mason and Dixon endure in carrying out their assignment. And it slowly becomes clear that this story is not about a triumph of 18th century scientific methods, which Pynchon explains in elaborate detail, but rather about a tragic desecration, a deadly abstraction imposed...