Word: abstractionism
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BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and...
De Kooning, however, was inherently a corporeal artist. His best work had a wonderful libidinousness, a way of using the body of paint to access and encompass the body of the world. To call it abstract, even when it was most so, is to ignore this. In what was probably...
DIED. VICTOR VASARELY, 88, a master of Op Art, a type of abstraction based on optical illusions and displayed in popular paintings that combines bright colors and geometrical forms; in Paris.
Even in a collection composed of images ranging from landscapes to intense, personal portraits, the clarity and beauty of the exhibition's title unify the photographs. A surprise waits in every image, one that neither shocks nor disturbs, but instead brings a smile to your face. This is rare among...
Mann says that in addition to improving treatments and education, "one of the [most important] factors of increased tolerance is knowing someone who is infected -- dealing with a person you know and not an abstraction," he says.