Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest artists of the 20th century, but he remains comparatively underknown in Manhattan. Thirty-one years have passed since a New York museum devoted a show to his work. Why this should be, one can only guess. Presumably it has something to do with the belief that purely abstract painting was the climax of modernism, so that a painter whose entire sensibility was bound up with the desire to narrate large themes of love, death, myth and memory through allegories enacted by human figures went against some of the most cherished, indurated dogmas of the American art world...
This seems likely even though Beckmann himself believed that "every form of significant art from Bellini to Henri Rousseau has ultimately been abstract." But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time. And in the Guggenheim's show one sees the very peak of his work: seven of the nine triptychs (three-panel paintings, based on the format of church altarpieces) that he painted immediately before and during his exile...
...There was not one way of being a leader [put forward]," said Adina H. Rosenbaum '98, co-chair of the steering committee. "I expected the conference to revolve around gender more than it actually did. People just talked a lot about leadership skills in general. It wasn't just abstract discussion about leaders. It was very practical...
Birkhoff studied lattice theory, a highly abstract theory of structure and relative magnitude that was in its infancy when he began his studies...
...combined reverence for the military and for education seems as ironic as the now-abstract concept of student veteran. The military seems to command little regard and less respect on campus today. Even the forces that hold legitimate grudges against the institutionalized armed forces (those fighting for the inclusion of homosexuals, for example) do not herald the military when they criticize it. Just as Harvard's ROTC program is housed away from the Yard at MIT, the military seems apart from the culture here and from the culture of our generation generally...