Word: abstractable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kafka: A Biography, Ronald Hayman carefully traces the close connection between the circumstances of Kafka's life and his work, bringing his sometimes puzzling and abstract fiction comfortably down to the human realm. The book is also valuable as a slap-in-the face for anyone who has flirted with the idea of a life of self-punishment; for, although Hayman wants to "emphasize what is positive in Kafka's negativism," he cannot help leaving us with the rather tragic picture of a tortured artist who served self-torture more dutifully than...
...children and the Czech employees in his fancy-goods shop. Herman Kafka terrorized young Franz with threats, public humiliation and arbitrary commandments. Kafka's earliest memory was of being whisked out of bed one night and dumped outdoors--punishment for being thirsty. Whoever said The Trial was "puzzling and abstract...
...American Institute of Architects, which had been asked to help run a competition for a proper memorial, announced that the winner among 547 entries was an abstract grouping of large stone forms, designed by the firm of Pedersen & Tilney...
...that Reagan chose to quote Lincoln's words to Congress on Tuesday. As Lincoln no doubt realized and as Reagan cannot understand, the "history" so "inescapable" has largely been the path toward removing oppressive, less-fortunate features of the original American compact. And now, hiding behind a wall of abstract platitudes, Reagan intends to dismantle the precious safeguards that have been tortuously erected...
...continuation. Diebenkorn's recent drawings (all are paintings on paper, in a restricted color range keyed to blue) develop, with some diffidence, out of the quasiabstract Ocean Parks. Those works, which have occupied him from 1967 to the present, are arguably the most refined images of the abstract bones of landscape (in the best sense of refinement, which excludes prettiness and weakness) done by an American artist of his generation. Pale blue Pacific air, cuts and slices of gable, white posts by the sea, sudden drop-offs of hill or throughway-these images of the California coast have found...