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...called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters by Aaron Siskind...
...much larger than a playing card. At that palm-size scale the solid world starts to dematerialize. Trees in the mist become twigs. Grasses reflected in water, as in his early picture Detroit, look like not fully legible scribbles of some force behind creation. Callahan shared with the Abstract Expressionist painters a penchant for the sublime, but he worked toward it from a different direction. They preferred wall-size canvases, a match for the presumed immensities of the spiritual realm; he made pictures the size of an intuition...
...Maui." Happily for Mac, his appearance isn't all he has going for him. Smart enough to have developed an immensely profitable software program, this New York City police officer lives not in some aluminum-sided row house in Queens but rather in a vast SoHo loft replete with abstract paintings and expensive sheets. Sure, he has problems--like a stiff, play-by-the-rules police chief--but they're never anything that a blond and a good Merlot can't help him solve...
Brooks isn't much kinder about Lenat's work. "I don't think [CYC] can ever have a deep experience of the world," he sniffs, pointing out that without sensory input, the program's knowledge can never really amount to more than an abstract network of symbols...
...Abstract painting lapsed into mannerism in Europe by the late 1930s, and was revived in America by artists who discarded its utopian fantasies and replaced them with ideas related to epic space, primitive ritual, spontaneous gesture and the sublime. But who today still buys the rhetoric that surrounded Abstract Expressionism--all that oracular guff about existential confrontation, tragedy, timelessness and how we're locking horns with Michelangelo...