Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close of the Baroque period. Models and photographs demonstrate the modern churches designed by modern architects, Boehm, Bartning, et alia. In harmony with the structures of an age which has made material more responsive to mind than ever before, and so has had undreamed of power over the abstract are the altar furniture, vestments, tapestries, stained glass and other work which completes the display. The high points of the collection are the models and photographs of the Church of St. Joseph by Boehm, a group of four gargoyles by the sculptor Hensler, chalices and patenae by Michaelis, several original pieces...
Artist Miro is still an abstract painter more interested in getting emotions on canvas than creating recognizable designs. But in late years critics, hardened to modernists, have come to realize that he is also a serious, thoughtful painter with a vast grasp of the technique of his craft and an uncanny sense of color. His strange de signs have the quality of holding attention and spurring imagination which, in its essence, is the final aim of surrealism. Wrote conservative Critic Henry McBride last week...
...abstract I should like to see this doubtful method of control and measurement of intellectual progress abolished. I recognize, however, that the abandonment of this typically American pedagogic device would demand extraordinary readjustments. These readjustments would be required, notably in the attitude of average American parents who would almost certainly be distressed beyond measure if a son or daughter failed to obtain an A.B. degree at the end of a period of study; and also in the attitude of State School Boards...
...sequins, trays of importunate little cards. But not one of the little cards has the right name engraved on it, for there is no right name; there isn't anybody at all that matters. Little Eva, with her name in electric lights, knows now that success is just an abstract noun. It isn't what she dreamed of back in Vermont. It doesn't mean a thing. Sunt rerum lacrimae. Finis...
...Professor Samuel Nowell Stevens questioned 10,000 U. S. housewives. Uniformly, from Portland, Ore. and Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, women were impressed and excited by advertising. The advertising message meant most to the women. The dress-up of type, illustration, color and paper, meant less. Nor did abstract ideas and symbols have much influence. The women reacted most effectively to sincerity and dramatic appeal, particularly when they could use the advertised goods in their regular, daily activities...