Word: geometricism
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Though the female of the genus ( To say nothing of the male) Liked the geometric Venus, Kinsey's tie is not for sale.
After that, Huett turned himself into a kind of street-corner John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their...
Harvard's Joseph Hudnut, 67, dean of the Graduate School of Design. A shy, mild-mannered man, Hudnut started out as a designer of gothic churches, later, in disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery...
"Perhaps the most conspicuous quality of contemporary art is the extreme loneliness of its author which it reflects. His divorce from society . . . has become complete. To visit any one of a score of recent exhibitions leaves the impression one has at looking into the brilliantly illuminated window of a hardware...
Gabo's method is called "constructivism," and he has been at it for almost half a century. He began in 1915, by taking flat wooden pieces and assembling them to form a portrait head. Says he: "I saw that I could make a head without chipping from a block...