Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it became clear to man that Reason alone did not really give him an adequate view of himself, a number of surrogate deities emerged?"forces" that supposedly rule man's fate. One was History, and modern man still sees himself to a great extent ruled by this abstraction. A...
The show, in effect, plunged the U.S. realist tradition temporarily in the shadows. It was not until the 1950s, when the powerful wave of abstraction reached its peak, that the U.S. asserted itself strongly on the international stage. But if the show shattered Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force...
Today the manifesto is no longer regarded as bombast: it cemented together a powerful group of young painters who are attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only at home but also abroad.* Though they were separately painting their agonized pictures before 1961, it was not until U.S. Art Critic...
Blind Alleys. Always the rebel, Cuevas rather grandly refuses to associate himself with any group, even the interioristas. But his mark and leadership are there nonetheless. "Mexican art was at a dead end. Now we are free," he said, and the other interioristas enthusiastically agree. Canadian-born Arnold Belkin. 32...
The book that has most directly influenced people's opinions about violence is Robert F. Williams' Negroes With Guns. For it leads one to realize that the question is by no means an abstraction. Under certain conditions, racial violence in the South (and North) will certainly occur. In some Southern...