Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
From room to room Director Barr has arranged his exhibits to trace the development of abstract art from the Cubists, who formalized what was still representational art, to the latest Constructivists whose esthetic thrills come from the mere sight of wheels within wheels...
...office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...
...publicity when New York customs officials refused to accept 19 strange objects as nondutiable sculpture. They based their ruling on a judicial decision which states that sculpture as an art must depict "natural objects in their true proportion." Things were at an impasse since the avowed purpose of all abstract sculpture was to depict nothing at all but to stand on its own merits as pure design. President Conger Goodyear of the Modern Museum promptly protested...
...vigorous pace, the same inner urge to let the body speak for itself. Average theatre audiences can appreciate a Humphrey-Weidman recital, see frequent glimmers of a plot that can be translated into words. Though Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse...