Word: geometricism
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I question "the harsh, raw severity of Le Corbusier jars a world conditioned for softer, more comfortable art forms." I think you should have been far more specific. In its own way the Arts Center was designed so that it would be a functional companion for man "harsh" and "raw...
Squares of cardboard are mounted on a battery-powered turntable inside a protective pot-shaped housing, the switch is turned on, and the cardboard begins to spin. With a special plastic spoon, colored plastic paints are dribbled on the spinning "canvas," and the results can range from wild abstractions to...
There is no conscious philosophy behind all this any more than there was a philosophy behind the meticulous geometric abstractions that Jones once did. He abandoned the abstractions because he felt that he was "putting too much emphasis on organization. I could do the best rectangle in the country, but...
Why this patently obvious fact is fundamental to one of the most difficult branches of mathematics, why it is fairly hard to prove in a general form, and how it relates the geometric and the algebraic in topology, are nowhere to be found. These questions are not impossible to answer...
By a lucky chance, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet colaborated on L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad. The novelist suffered from a geometric sense of details, and the director had just the flair for composition to give those beautiful but boring paragraphs visual substance. Perhaps more importants, the author's penchant for...