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...reminder of how the practice helped feed one of Europe's greatest periods of intellectual fervor. Even though we were there to record the scandalized reactions of the crowd, many journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly be related? I was fascinated by the corpse's gall bladder, an organ my doctor once threatened to remove, and which I had consequently associated only with pain and fear. Glistening, vibrantly colored...
...With all due respect, what you stated is extraordinarily abstract,’’ Dershowitz said according to the Boston Globe, which first reported the meeting. “That’s like asking someone to first vote for censorship, and then figure out later what is censored...
There are around 200 clubs at Harvard, and they’re all fighting for the attention, support and participation of 6,400 undergraduates. The majority of these student groups spend most of their advertising efforts on postering. But the kiosks look more like abstract art than carriers of potentially useful information, and students generally ignore swarms of overlapping posters. On the Harvard campus, where clubs are generally trying to attract individuals to actual events—not just flash a brand name and hope the subconscious picks it up—I wondered if there were more effective ways...
Hope is an artist who does not fully arrive at herself until she has buried her first two husbands, both of them artists more famous than she, who required a lot of care and feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
...modern art was art.) What Sheeler gradually realized was that the camera could find in the real world the fractured spaces of Picasso and the flat planes of Matisse. It could produce a picture of the side of a barn in which nothing had been altered but everything appeared abstract. It could give the old hat a fresh tilt...