Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just four years later she was dead, but she left behind a legend and a stunning body of work. After years of relative neglect, modern art is now going through an extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken...
...Kernahan Burnbach, Germany Your article was interesting and compelling, yet in its final movements missed the point entirely and emphasized one of the underlying problems - you seem to think it should be "cheaper" to be green. The price of not being green is charged in some pretty abstract ways. How, exactly, do you put a price on melting ice caps or thawing tundra? The costs of being green most often come about in what we as a Western, capitalist culture understand best - money. Stephen Van Scoyoc Althorne, England The Enron Verdicts I appreciated the viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts...
...totally to blame. Most of our national leaders, so afraid of losing votes, refuse to ask their constituents to face tough decisions. As a result our stake in America’s future becomes more and more abstract. Its not that we don’t care. We just don’t know what to care about or what our caring will accomplish...
...cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The Lascaux discovery in 1940 redefined what was previously known about human beings' creative development and ability to construct images from abstract thought. That critical leap and the resulting tangible evidence are invaluable to understanding global human heritage. Imagine if the great library of Alexandria survived today. How much richer would the world and collective human culture be if we could draw from that vast collection of ancient knowledge? The Lascaux cave...
...They got grades from us, individual members of the faculty helped them out, and they occupied Harvard space,” Vagts said of the 1981 Review. In late March, the faculty committee released its report, stating that although faculty members are “content with the abstract principles of better representation for minorities, [there are] better ways to accomplish the same objectives.”Within a month, and in light of the concerns expressed by faculty and alumni, the Review voted to postpone the implementation of its affirmative action program if the faculty would accept the general...