Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concrete v. Abstract. Few men in the world know more about the workings of the human brain than grey-locked Neurologist Kurt Goldstein, formerly of the University of Berlin, now at New York City's vast Montefiore Hospital...
...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
...Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest...
Solomon Guggenheim's snappy, grey-haired, expatriate Niece Peggy shares his affection for abstract art, exhibits it at a cute little London gallery known as "Guggenheim Jeune." Promised for exhibition in Paris last fortnight was Peggy's own large and brilliant collection of non-objects. At the last moment casual Parisians were disgusted to learn that "Guggenheim Jeune," all aflutter, had canceled the show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with...
According to the National Board of Review Magazine, "this is the best use of documentary films to record history, with historical intent, that we have seen. But it proves that history is not an abstract thing but something made by a an historian...