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The simplest theory covering an economy of two involves 14 equations, and as the population goes up, the number of equations required increases in geometric fashion. With modern computers, socialist planners may be able to fill the function which producer and consumer handle in a free economy through millions of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark IV, Newest Computer, Opens This May | 1/31/1952 | See Source »

Besides his geometric abstractions which stress color, form, and shading, Josef Albers has done bright and glossy studies in sandblasted glass. To make his patterns, Albers put together sheets of laminated glass of different colors and blasted his designs from the top plates, allowing the underplates to show through. Albers...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: On Exhibit | 1/15/1952 | See Source »

The most important contributions of Laszio Moholy-Nagy to the fields of art and photography cannot be shown in any exhibit. Moholy-Nagy was primarily a great teacher, but his work in developing new types of photography is also outstanding. On display are some of his photograms, plates exposed without...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: On Exhibit | 1/15/1952 | See Source »

Chermayeff is mainly interested in abstract composition. In most cases, he uses conventional colors and does not try for delicate tones or nuances. His large water-color entitled "Three Fish" has a good balance of geometric shapes and is neatly drawn. A smaller "Fish," however, is much more lively because...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Harvard Art Association | 11/20/1951 | See Source »

Like many a bewildered layman, Paris Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 65, often fails to appreciate the strange distortions of his more abstract contemporaries. On the front page of Paris' Figaro Littéraire, he tells why: "I have never seen anything in geometric form except a means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Just Maneuvers | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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