Word: abstractedness
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The culture that Hitler created has been preserved in bits and pieces in the years since 1945, in plastic and asphalt and machines, and they are abstracted on Syberberg's set. The puppets (crafted with cracked faces and a preserved realism) and mannequins are at least half-human, and the...
Still, the mockery of TV weathercasters is probably inevitable. The art form is an original, without ancestors; it is bound now and then to be a sort of satire upon itself. Every night on millions of TV screens, the breezy wizards conjure hieratically with nature. They prophesy. Warm and cold...
What was the anti-impressionist reaction of the 1880s all about? Partly, subject matter, the issue of what painting could express. Impressionism had been the art of the bourgeois paradise, naturalism unmodulated by idea. It had no content beyond the "view" ("Monet is only an eye," Cezanne said, "but good...
The bargaining situations or games, as they are called in Raiffa's course, are abstracted and simplified from more complex real-life business situations. One student might play the role of a policeman's union leader, the other a city mayor. The two sit down and negotiate a contract, each...
Nicholson is coming up to his 85th birthday now. It is doubtful whether any other English artist has had a comparable effect on the development of abstract art. For several decades, his muted, delicately cut reliefs and abstracted images of still life and landscape formed the main link between English...