Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Excerpts from the excerpts: "You can imagine how intolerable to me are all those people who ape my art, my work, even my ways. ... In 1925 some friends wanted to take me to that monstrous display of bad taste . . . the International Exhibition of Decorative Art. They said to me, '...
Talking about Sacre du Printemps and what it means, what one is supposed to feel about it, was vastly facilitated by these performances. It was the first time the music had been visually translated in the U. S. by choreography. Music lovers whose inner selves had before this leapt up...
An economic abstraction has become a matter of life and death to four million Russians. Ever since the Soviet triumph of State over Church, cartoon and rhetoric have obscured the fact that the fundamental issue revolves on the extermination of a class. The emphasis on material possessions as the criterion...
As for the practical move of abolishing monitors, that is unthinkable. One generation after another of Harvard men has shivered at an icy breath on the nape of the neck, and then turned to see only a kindly monitor whiling away part of the three hours by reading over his...