Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MASAYUKI NAGARE-Staempfli, 47 East 77th St. The first U.S. exhibition of the massive abstract shapes of Japan's foremost sculptor (TIME, Sept. 20). Surfaces are apple-smooth or raw-rock broken; the urge to touch is irresistible and encouraged. Through...
...book has one stylistic failing. The authors rely too heavily on sociological jargon; words such as ethos, anomie, and typology appear to often. Sometimes these terms clarify concepts that would otherwise be fuzzy and obscure, but frequently they merely make the writing ponderous and unnecessarily abstract...
...came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities: ecstasy and precision... For all this decoration is the dream of a master mathematician. As the line progresses and unwinds, it becomes the abstract expression--the distillation of all plants, all animals, and all thoughts...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. In rejecting the notion that sculpture is petrified people, Rosso often gave his glowing waxworks a life that has outlived the subjects. Through...
...appeal to my artistic faculties, trampling those infantile barricades of the self-appointed dictators infesting the art fields." He glued together tiny collages, which he called Naturelles-accidental impastos of tissue paper, newsprint, and cardboard stamped with the tread of automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley...