Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curious Syndrome. Kitaj's visual skill spares him from making just word games. He is coming to realize that source dropping can become as precious?and boring?as name dropping. As he could learn from another expatriate, the late T. S. Eliot, it is the poetry, not the footnotes, that...
This theme doesn't always work. Sometimes the Kafkaesque abstraction rings a bit false; sometimes the dreams ring a little corny, like the repeated line about "a house on a hill."
Eugene Carson Blake's 1960 proposal to merge four major Protestant churches into one seemed a lightning flash illuminating a hopeful abstraction, an ex citing new vision. Now the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church sees his idea as more possible than before, more urgent than ever, and...
Against this private world, Tolstoy posed the public world of events, and the use of ingeniously flexible stage levels keeps the two worlds in ironic interplay. The public world reverberates with social reforms, patriotism, the trumpeted, and trumped-up, goals of nations and of wars. In Tolstoy's view...
Right from the start the mood was bullish. First up were European blue chips: a Kandinsky watercolor went for $7,200, a Salvador Dali watercolor reached an extraordinary $11,500, and a fine 1921 Mondrian peaked at $42,000. Then Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, who jumped out...