Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by larger, more affluent museums, Smith and the museum's angel, Woolworth Heir Seymour H. Knox, assembled a collection of abstract expressionist art that is virtually unsurpassed...
True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...
...first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete a portrait in seven to 15 hours, usually working from a photograph. A realistic painter, Chaliapin was an implacable and voluble foe of modern abstract art: "I want a linoleum design on the floor, not in a picture on the wall...
Since last October, a two-ton green granite sculpture has been on display outside an uptown Manhattan art gallery. Valued at $80,000, the abstract 8-ft.-high Ubatuba (named after the Brazilian town where the granite was quarried) was the work of French Sculptor Antoine Poncet, a disciple of Jean Arp. Poncet hoped that Ubatuba would bring "a fresh and pure breath" to a city he calls "New York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they...
...recent years Parsons, one of the fathers of American sociology, had suffered the assaults of an Oedipal rebellion. Many young sociologists found Marx's explicitly revolutionary analysis of modern capitalist social relations more appealing than Parson's more abstract, apolotical--and therefore, it seemed, inherently conservative--theory. Critics characterized Parson's convoluted prose style as opaque and his analyses as suggestive but inadequate, if not simply incorrect...