Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a special legitimacy to the civil rights movement, mother of the old New Left crusades. Part of it is that broad base, across race, economics and age. Part, too, is the index of conscience the movement provides; the most tangible, immediate injustice of racial inequality eclipses more abstract causes...
...that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending the black of the tunic...
...desperately need what they convey. Although we may be fleetingly thrilled, we are surely not satisfied with what fashionable ulterior design offers today. The model living room, as depicted in the stores and decorator magazines, has become America's disaster area. We have a choice between bizarrely abstract furnishings in chrome or lacquer, alienated from living reality, and eclectic kitsch heaped on like the toppings on ice cream sundaes-not much of a choice. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
Photographs, with their immediacy and verisimilitude, are the usual means of illustrating a news story and are a compelling part of TIME'S content every week. But for some stories, on the arcane complexities of arms control or international economics, for instance, or the abstractions of intellectual endeavor and emotional response, photography can seem too realistic, too specific to reflect and enhance the subject's nuances. For these stories, the editors often turn to the art world to solicit original work, including drawings, paintings, collages and prints, that can better evoke the meaning of the text. The Essay...
...proscriptions against figure painting had lost their magic. To suppose this was not a radical act, one would need to know very little about the pressures of ideology and convention in the New York art world of the time. Realist figurative painting was as unpopular then as abstract...