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Chicago, who was born Judy Cohen in 1939, started out making big minimalist sculptures and hard-edged abstract paintings, some of them quite good. But in the early '70s, under the influence of feminist thinking about personal experience, she took a turn into work that was confessional, therapeutic and maudlin. In The Rejection Quintet from 1974, color drawings similar to the vaginal emblems she would use for The Dinner Party are combined with hand-lettered texts describing various personal humiliations. The drawing is adequate, the sentimentality nothing short of Victorian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Women Have Done to Art | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

Dubbed "The Concrete Abstract," the forthcoming newspaper draws its name and motivation from a similar project that Matherites engineered in the 1970s and early 1980s, according to Nikhil G. Mathews ’08, the recently elected Mather House historian who has been spearheading the current effort...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather To Resurrect House Newspaper | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...hardware, her tune played on his instrument. "It was that sense that the same thing was being felt inside her and inside me--that it wasn't two different feelings, it was the same feeling," Hofstadter says. "If you believe that what makes for consciousness is some kind of abstract pattern, then it's sort of a self-evident fact that whatever pattern exists in my brain could exist in other physical structures in the world." I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Mathemagical Thinking | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...original—even admirable—thesis, but unfortunately, the book lacks potency and persuasive appeal.In contrast to the stringent maxims of Mao’s “Little Red Book,” much of Gao’s rhetoric is lofty and abstract. Despite the clarity of his prose, his argument, detached from all concrete reasoning, reads like a parade of non sequiturs.In the first of the essays, “Preface to ‘Without Isms,’” Gao attempts to argue for writing “without isms...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Gao Makes an Unconvincing ‘Case’ | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...minimalist philosophy. Salas: Our style for the show, which is also our credo, is to give more agency to the actors than the director. Everything is stripped down, the timing is neutral, the set is minimal, the costumes are softly suggesting a militaristic setting, but are still abstract. Salas and Mead chose “Julius Caesar” because they believe it’s the best of Shakespeare’s plays to put on. Mead: It’s almost like two plays within one. The first act is amazing, because there’s all this...

Author: By Kimberly B. Kargman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Robert D. Salas '08 & Winter Mead III '08 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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