Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad to see you "on the job," as usual, in giving, Dec. 7, an abstract of my article 'Out of Bounds" in American Game, describing the embarrassing overabundance of deer in Pennsylvania. But I fear the Governor and the Pennsylvania Game Commission will not "confirm" the promotion you give me in your article. I am by no means "Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner," but merely the humble research scientist to the Commission...
...nice to read. Most of the dominant currents of western life were concentrated at Athens, and where-ever the same interests come together again the Greek way of finding a place for all of them is bound to exercise a powerful fascination. Moreover a method had been evolved by abstract philosophizing for dealing with these various interests. An intensity of social life had been achieved which fused them together in the common consciousness and demanded the highest type of poetic expression for the new unity. Plato formulates the conclusions of a very complete civilization, and only a very incomplete...
...Rather than show different artists and tendencies, this exhibition is, like the first, built around an idea. The review of modern painting, which was the subject of the last exhibition, showed clearly the direction of painting toward an abstract rather than realistic type of expression. 'Abstraction' is the name of the present exhibition. It includes examples of abstract (non-realistic) art from many nations and many centuries...
...Greek vase from the fifth century B.C., and a fine panel from an Egyptian tomb will be shown together with original works by EI Greco, Pieasso, O'Keefe, and Branciesi, the implication being that there is an underlying formal principle which runs through all abstract works...
Plans for the year include a number of other shows which will subordinate the individual work and derive unity from some problem in painting. An exhibition of abstract and realistic painting will take up the question of the degree to which individual artists depend on external phenomena. "Qualities" will be an exhibition including all types of visual objects...