Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a rainstorm begins: motorists keep windshield wipers locked away in the trunk when not in use. since spare parts are all but unobtainable. Reporting that many Russians have a thorough knowledge of American art and literature, he related a talk he had with one man about the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. "He died in an auto accident," Paar had told the Russian. Looking furtively from side to side, the Russian said he knew that...
Translating the "structure" of many abstract subjects is thus no simple matter. Nonetheless, Bruner and his colleagues hope to build on Piaget's pioneering research. They feel almost certain that mental development can be speeded, that children can be led from level to level much faster. This year Piaget's associate, Psychologist Barbel Inhelder, is at Harvard to experiment in possible techniques. For example, six-year-olds cannot see several aspects of one phenomenon. They assume that one car is going faster than another because it reaches a goal first. It may really have started closer...
...paintings of Oscar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, Paul Klee, and others also reflect this mechanical trend, but it reaches perhaps its greatest extreme in the works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy who completely eliminates the objective elements from his painting, retaining only geometric abstractions. Unlike most current abstract-expressionists, Moholy-Nagy shows a great amount of skill in juggling forms and colors to achieve a very definite (and intended) effect. In his "Composition A-18," the clever placing of several dotted lines directs a jumble of planes to recede from the viewer into a large white circle, and the whole melange tumbles...
...museum merely to see some nice pictures it is fine. But for the person who views the world as the Bauhaus did--in terms of unity, it is hard to imagine how the museum's directors could ignore an opportunity to show, among other things, how Kandinsky's abstract expressionism has led to such things as Jackson Pollack's dribblings, how Moholy-Nagy's geometry has led to Mark Rothko's squares within squares, and, most important of all, how the Bauhaus attempt to unify the visual arts has led to widespread acceptance of what now is called "environmental architecture...
...Stanley H. King, director of the project, and his assistants decided to extend their work to the Class of '65. A quarter of that class, picked at random, will take 12 hours of written tests and questionnaires during the year, covering everything from concrete views on Cliffies to more abstract questions, such...