Word: abstractionism
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The makers of this movie, though, have made the deadly mistake of trying to present realistically a story which would seem more plausible with an element of abstraction. They've included a few truly bizarre sex scenes, which probably would be better left to the imagination of the audience. As...
Joining in a circle, the women assume a new course of narrative. The play ventures still further into abstraction. The woman assume poses and recount the experiences of women Pilgrims, slaves, or pioneers. Finally, the universality of women's struggle for individual and group pride culminates. The play concludes with...
"To me 'The Homeplace' has become an abstraction. The area in which I live is not the landscape, but the presence of other humans," he read.
* A reticent Yankee patrician, the Harvard-educated offspring of a family that once owned much of the farmland on which the Chicago Loop now stands, Fairfield Porter was always a bit of an anomaly in the New York art world. He doesn't fit the standard profile of postwar American...
Most American playwrights seem obsessed with the hearth and its heartaches, but Lee Blessing takes on big political questions, finding the human dimension without stinting the abstraction. Since his 1987 breakthrough work, A Walk in the Woods, about nuclear arms control, he has tackled Beirut hostage taking (Two Rooms), the...