Word: abstractionism
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The idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year...
For half a century, anyone who has questioned the American commercial-television system has been shouted down as a censor. Instead of talking seriously about how to improve television for our children, Americans argue to a stalemate about broadcasters' rights and government censorship. We neglect discussion of moral responsibility by...
This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic...
Through Oct. 22. "Degrees of Abstraction: FromMorris Louis to Mapplethorpe." The selection ofobjects and the installation of this exhibitionwill play "pure" abstraction againstrepresentation.
Through Oct. 22. "Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe." The selection of objects and the installation of this exhibition will play "pure" abstraction against representation.