Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central issue; female nudes once considered the norm for art are now re-evaluated in terms of their ramifications for female sexuality. A Playboy cartoon best summarizes the idea. It depicts a man in a museum looking at what appears to be a modern painting. Abstract colorful planes speckle the canvas, but the man's figurative interpretation becomes visible: he reconstructs the forms to create a faceless female figure. He smiles smugly because of what he believes to be his private image, although it is in fact an image provoked by social standards...
...lyrical sense of Australian landscape, whose appearance in art Boyd played a large role in re- creating, and an enthusiasm for allegory and biblical narrative resembling Samuel Palmer's -- suffused his work for the next 30 years. Naturally, this made Boyd seem provincial, against the dominant currents of international abstract art. Then came the '80s, and with them a figurative revival -- conducted, for the most part, by shallow rhetorical artists, media- hypnotized Americans and hot-'n'-heavy Germans. But Boyd, unlike Georg Baselitz and other cultural sausagemakers, didn't have ministries and art magazines pushing his work while a worldwide...
...perks of being President or Vice President is that you get to decorate your home with paintings from the National Museum of American Art. The Clintons made news when they borrowed an abstract by Willem de Kooning -- a White House first. The Gores' selections are more traditional. They may also be reflective of the vice-presidential mindset...
...McGahern's Collected Stories, released in paperback in March, speak to the difference between an abstract greatness and what we like. When Tipperary, a character in the story "Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass," asks the narrator if he thinks Shakespeare was all that he was bumped up to be, the narrator answers that people say so, and it is people who do all the bumping up or bumping down. "Who is people?" asks Tipperary. "People is people," says the narrator,"...they might even be ourselves...
...mortgages is now bound up in mortgage-backed securities, up from zero two decades ago. All told, there's a huge speculative overlay on stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the underlying." These abstract concoctions are floating over the real world of stocks, bonds, corn and hogs in the same way that the island of Laputa, that fanciful domain of theorizers and stargazers, floated over real towns and villages in Gulliver's Travels...