Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any...
In Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and...
As some of the world already knows too well, the symbol of New York City's forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U...
Done in grey, with staring whites and blacks, Guernica had a visceral effect on Londoners who had just got over the war scare, an esthetic kick for the critics. The Times's, Eric Newton noted that in his studies for a screaming woman (see cut) Picasso had drawn each...
Dr. Kurt Goldstein, Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, will lecture on "The Significance of Abstraction for Normal Life," at Emerson Hall, at 4:30 p.m. This is one of a series of lectures by Professor Goldstein, as William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology, on the general topic "Human...