Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handsome Payoff. Since the present curator, William N. Eisendrath, 64, moved the collection into its zippy new $650,000 Steinberg Hall gallery in 1960, he has added still more modern paintings, including Sam Francis' flamboyant Arcueil and Roberto Matta's perkily prismatic Abstraction (see color opposite). There are...
This could be the big sleeper of the whole summer school curriculum. Realism and Abstraction in Cinema, 1896-1966, it's called. If you have no vigorous objection to watching movies for credit, this course is probably for you. Richard MacCann, of the University of Kansas Journalism School, runs the...
As if this were not enough for the comparison shoppers, the troupes presented duplicate performances of other works as well. Notably, there was Igor Stravinsky's ritualistic mosaic of a Russian peasant wedding, Les Noces, which the Royal Ballet gave earlier in the for mal, restrained version by Bronislava...
Most of its members also won't buy the notion that becoming a professional entails a sell-out to the system. The Negro activist is now bored with constant, vague polemics about the "oppressive, capitalist system" while action not abstraction is needed.
Added to that is the whole 20th century experience of abstract art, from cubism through abstract expressionism, which has taught many that art need represent neither a thing nor an emotion; luminal art, though radiantly handsome, generally does neither. Pop played a role in making commercial techniques acceptable. Peter Myer...