Word: abstractionism
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In order to understand this hellish confusion, Syberberg demands an intellectual involvement with Hegel, Schiller, Nietzsche, Wagner, as well as German history from Ludwig I. With this background, with the physical patience to sit through a seven-hour abstraction, one can understand the twists and evil that forged the Nazi...
Such logic worked often enough that Marvy began to think of manufacturing barber poles, not just selling them. In January 1950 he opened his own factory. At the time there were five other barber-pole makers in the country: two in Chicago, one in St. Louis, one in Los Angeles...
The exhibition of "Afro-American Abstraction," being held in the "alternative space" of a rehabilitated New York City school building called P.S. 1, is a modest sort of landmark. It has been some years since any New York museum paid much attention to what black artists were doing. There was...
The first point to be made about this show is, perhaps, obvious. It is not an exhibition of "ethnic" art. The traditions that have shaped the work in it are Western modernist above anything else. Welded steel plates, junk assemblage, dyed and sewed canvas, scattered installation pieces on the floor...
At its truest, American patriotism has a sort of abstraction about it that makes it uniquely difficult and valuable: it is a devotion not to a specific physical place, gene pool, cuisine or cultural tradition, but to a political and social vision, a promise and the idea of freedom-an...