Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rothko's Harvard Murals," through Nov. 21. Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...
...academy wrote, in part, "She delves into the language itself, a language she wants to liberate from the fetters of race." This is wrong, as have been the many critics over the years who have praised Morrison for "transcending" the ( blackness of her characters and bestowing on them an abstract universality that everyone can understand...
Sackler Museum. "Rothko's Harvard Murals," through Nov. 21. Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...
...Minimalism are strong and, on the whole, well chosen -- decadent though they may look in Beijing. But the historical structure is lame-brained because it ignores a vein of American art in the early 1960s that, though out of favor today, has a solid claim to inclusion: abstract color-field painting. Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis do not appear and might never have existed. Instead the narrative goes straight from Abstract Expressionism...
...show gets imprisoned by its own generalizations. It's good that a serious attempt has been made to set pre-Abstract Expressionist painting before an English public. But American art in the 1920s is defined too narrowly, as being "about" cities, industry and visions (ironic or not) of progress based on technology. Its mystico-romantic landscape imagery gets edited out. See Marsden Hartley through his heraldic Cubist-based paintings of 1913-14, such as Portrait of a German Officer, that moving, coded valentine of homosexual love, but omit his later, grandly somber images of the Maine coast. Have Georgia...