Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charred Hearts & Politics Sir: It is expecting quite a lot of the Vietnamese [Dec. 11]; to stand by patiently and watch their country slowly disintegrate for a political principle that to them is not only an abstraction but also an invitation to death and destruction. Now, against their will, these...
This exhibit should be educational in another way: it illustrates the wide dissemination that the new art forms (e.g. "pop art") have received. Yet the museums and galleries often act as if, after fifty years of abstraction, their only duty is to show the public that such a thing exists...
It is unfortunate that a second show sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association (at the Edna Stebbins Gallery, 3 Church Street) is scheduled to close before this article appears. Every painting dealt with the glories of the Charles River, and the exhibit was called the "Save Memorial Drive Arts Show...
Everyone would like to erase, or explain, the tragedies of history, but tragedy is by nature inexplicable, unavoidable and irreversible. Arthur Miller proposes that the living atone for the dead. But universal guilt, like universal love, is an abstraction. "What can ever save us?" the prince asks in a moment...
There is proof, too, at the Whitney show that older sculptors are still going strong. Lipchitz looks more curvy than cubist in his bronze Lesson of a Disaster, a tripod sprouting flames. Noguchi's smooth, pierced-granite Black Sun continues to exploit Oriental eclecticism in graceful abstraction. But the...