Word: abstractionã
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...ethics, they must jettison this language of abstract rights in favor of a consensus anchored in the universalist elements of cultures around the world. Advocates must sincerely acknowledge cultural context in order to effectively address issues of common human welfare. The platform of human rights must shift from supracultural abstraction??“universally rational” values which ultimately rest upon Western liberalism—toward intercultural and intracultural pragmatism. Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders asserts that “everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to develop...
...This fact, as well as Iraq’s distance from the mainland United States, makes the war an “abstraction?? for the American public, he adds...
...Alcalay paints with even greater abstraction??what he calls “shaping the white” or using color as markers for the blurred light he is able to perceive...
...show demonstrates Delaney’s two principal styles of painting—portraiture and abstraction??which are rarely seen together in a show focusing on one artist...
Ambiguity often distinguishes good art from great art. By attempting to simplify the state of contemporary art into two distinct camps, the Carpenter Center’s show “Some Options in Abstraction?? and its currently-showing sister “Some Options in Realism” are in a double bind. Such categorization of art—while perhaps useful and necessary for its understanding—runs the risk of destroying a work’s subtlety and mystery. The compelling works that make up the show are strong on their own, but they...