Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to Waldo Frank less like a metropolitan park than a jungle. Nevertheless he comports himself with oratorical earnestness, harangues the jungly prowlers as if they were gaping democrats. His latest book, a collection of speeches and articles covering the last ten years, ranges from the autobiographical to the abstract, from the satiric to the scriptural. Readers found the scriptural passages skippable but the satiric often well-seasoned, salty...
...interpretation of imposition and color limits the artist a post-impressionism. He attempts to express with the greatest possible the material and spiritual significance of a subject, as the "treeness" a tree or the "wallness" of a wall. Generally the works of Kandinsky are considered to be the most abstract expressions of post-impressionism, requiring an imaginative reception on part of the observer...
...people a new conception of property rights." While the text of Adolf Hitler's coming new Law of Property is a state secret, the journal German Common & Economic Law last week carried official predictions that soon in German law "there will be no need and no room for abstract rights of property." As an example of how this is going to work out, anxious German property owners were advised last week to see a new Nazi cinema play, The Autocrat, starring Emil Jannings who last week in Austria spent half an hour displaying his collection of 500 live birds...
Eugene Gallatin's interest in art is older than his interest in automobiles as a sport. Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler were his first passions. He collected, studied, and finally wrote a sheaf of books on the elegant Jimmy, but gradually his taste grew more & more advanced, more & more abstract...
...world in general, the Pope's blast against Communism was able but not new. Catholics who read an official abstract of the encyclical, issued by the Vatican, found little in it which their priests and publicists had not ceaselessly voiced, at the Pope's orders, during the past year...