Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching the animated abstract films at the Harvard Film Archive this weekend will not be easy. Over the course of five days, 70 years' worth of work--140 films by dozens of artists--will dance across the Carpenter Center screen. The reward for dipping into this impressively curated and unique retrospective is an experience which skates away from verbal description...
...classic complaint against abstract art is that it alienates the average viewer. An odd combination of right-wing representationalists, left-wing socialist realists and bewildered museum-goers have long criticized the minimalist and expressionist pieces that dominated the art scene within the U.S. in the mid-20th century...
...powerful reflections rendered in these works make the title of Smith's exhibition--"This work is my identity"--all the more appropiate. Smith's simultaneous originality and centrality among abstract artists led him to problematize the notion of identity itself...
When one questioner posed a particularly abstract query to Postman about individuality, he responded "Are you talking...
Nowhere else can one supplement his or her abstract book learning with hands-on experience in the community. Nowhere else can one have the opportunity to design and run an actual program making an impact on real people--experience which easily translates into government or business. Alumni of our program have no less a "success rate" than the student body at large, even if you cynically consider that Harvard's goal may not be to produce individuals "to serve thy nation and thy kind" but individuals who give large contributions to the institution. PBHA has its share of generous alumni...