Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leash, 1912, are virtually straight renderings of multiple-exposure photographs. But in his series of paintings inspired by a Fiat speeding down the Via Veneto, the game gets more complex. Nearly all of this series is assembled at Palazzo Grassi, culminating in Balla's Abstract Speed, 1913, one of the few large futurist paintings that can be called a pictorial masterpiece, a thundering black Doppler-effect image in which the shapes of wheel, mudguard and driver dissolve in and out of the shuttling buildings...
...secret to Reagan's appeal, which is also the source of much criticism, is that he relates far more easily to the plight of individual citizens than to social problems in the abstract. "Letters from someone who has finally resorted to writing to you because they think all else has failed, and then be able to solve their problem and getting something done is, I think, one of the great rewards this job has to offer." As an actor in Hollywood, he recalls, he was shown a letter by his father from a girl who said she was dying...
...this is the result of true obsession (James says he thinks about baseball "virtually every waking hour of my life"), and the results of this continuing affliction emerge annually as the Baseball Abstract. Though less compelling than some of its nine predecessors, this year's version includes some refreshing observations on the overrating of the Cardinals' rookie outfielder, Vince Coleman, a long and brilliant account of the managerial chess game played at the 1985 world series, and a mordant treatise on the beloved and blinkered manager Chuck Tanner, who somehow failed to notice that his Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse had turned...
James never forgets that baseball is supposed to be fun. His Historical Abstract, a playful decade-by-decade romp through baseball's past, picks the best and worst in many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman...
...member of the Krokodiloes,LaCrosby is also a painter. His thesis was aseries of 30 oil and acrylic works done over aperiod of eight months. "The point was to see howI could break free of standardized ideas of how topaint," says LaCrosby. In his series ofprogressively more and more abstract andexpressionistic works, La Crosby does just that...