Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, an interesting new version of the political prisoner made its appearance: the abstract artist's. The occasion was an exhibit of models by eleven U.S. prizewinners in a world-wide sculpture competition on the theme of "The Unknown Political Prisoner'' (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952). The work of the prizewinners had qualities much admired in modern sculpture: sophistication, reticence-even imagination. What most of it notably lacked was any kind of human compassion. The abstractionists, in fact, seemed to be having a hard time with their big human theme...
...jury of five museum men had picked the eleven to represent the U.S. in a grand prize ($12,670) competition to be held in London this March. Among all the 199 U.S. entries, they announced, "the abstract [sculpture] was what the jury considered the most vital." The New York Times had another word for the show: "Disappointing...
...Irene) RICE PEREIRA, 45, is a handsome, green-eyed woman who dresses more like a Paris model than the paint-spattered artist she is. Moreover, she can turn from painting to writing esoteric poetry, or to giving a public lecture on abstract art, without batting an eye. When all goes well, Pereira sings as she paints; when things go badly, she cries and rages, complains of a sense of paralysis in her painting arm. But her pictures have no moods. They are as studied and frigidly precise as geometrical progressions: brilliant, carefully plotted blocks lines and dashes done in endless...
...idea of a newspaper unfettered by edicts from above or the shifting tastes of its readership is old and praiseworthy, and apart from abstract theories of liberty, this freedom is healthy in terms of interest, truthfulness, and mental stimulation alone. For those on the typewriter end, moreover, its worth--the maturity gained from unhampered grappling with journalism's problems--is equally clear. All this seems so obvious that undergraduate journalists who do not strive to practice this ideal are neither giving nor receiving what a newspaper should offer...
...University professors have received $1000 awards through the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of them for the solution of an abstract mathematical problem that has defied the world's best brains for half a century...