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...want people to learn enough of the basic ideas so that they can see how they work and apply them, rather than teaching more abstract math," she says...
...adulation and emulation pressure the Duchesnays to produce something ) newer still. And that, as they well know, is a risky venture. A year ago at the European championships in Sofia, they gambled on an abstract program titled Reflections. Skated to pianist George Winston's New Age music, the program bombed with a few judges and many spectators. After a disappointing second-place finish, the duo hastily prepared a new four-minute program in time for the 1991 world championships, just six weeks away. With choreographic inspiration and direction from Christopher Dean -- whom Isabelle married in May -- the Duchesnays prepared...
Johns, reknowned for paintings like the Flag (1954), marked the transition of American art from the Abstract Expressionism of the '40s and '50s to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His abstract canvases of the late 1960s, replete with real brooms, rulers and kitchen utensils, recall the iconography of Surrealists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst...
Afternoon has slipped into evening. Emily's mother yawns. When closing arguments end, Walker, a kindly 20-year veteran of the bench who writes haiku and dabbles in abstract painting, rules that sexual abuse did, in fact, occur. After listening to two hours of testimony, Walker is convinced that Emily has been sexually abused by her father and wants to protect her from having it happen again. He orders Emily to remain in foster care and asks social services to evaluate the suitability of placing her in a relative's home...
Davis' rise from the stairway is achieved now, but it was slow. When American Modernism triumphed, from about 1960 on, it did so largely without Davis: its beneficiaries were the Abstract Expressionists, and later the Pop artists. Davis' pragmatism, the empirical and logical qualities of his work that seem so admirable now and connect him back to the best strain in 19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American...