Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brewster presented the plan to the Yale Corporation only a few days before he made the announcement. The faculty got only a few hours' notice. Brewster was acting in haste, he said, because he felt that a trial would be far more instructive than "further abstract study." It is a "drastic move," he admitted, but one which, if carried out "with style and quality," will put "Yale in a position to enhance greatly its contribution to the generations ahead...
...pendulum swings," explains Richard Tuttle. "Pop was with the commercial image. It was a fight against the esoteric thing of abstract expressionism. Now this esoteric thing is coming back." Adds De Maria: "These works are secret-hard to get to. They put commitment back into...
Thus, whether the art is abstract, playful or simply aimed to astound the senses or stagger the imagination, each work retains a sense that an individual conceived it and executed it by hand. Moreover, he did it for a purpose-to make the viewer look, and feel, and think. The artist may speak from underground, but he retains, in an elliptical way, his traditional role. It is to make his fellowman more aware, not only of his anxiety but also of the beauty that lurks at his fingertips, in the materials of everyday existence...
MISS HAHN introduced music in her second performance, and once again showed her bias against traditional form, toward freer--perhaps more hazardous--interpretations of dance. The Company concentrated on pieces in which the relationship of sound to movement was abstract. Miss Hahn used sound to create a very general field in which the dance took place; or, at times, she refused to define the relationship. Movement and music followed their own tracks and the connection was left to each member of the audience. Sound and movement sometimes had completely separate existences coming together only at crucial moments...
...best example of its current renaissance. Just as many Harvard students have, to some extent, left their famous apathy behind in search of seeking peace of mind in an unjust world, so HUC members have changed their focus from an issue of personal freedom to one of more abstract social morality...