Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus introverted for centuries, the Germans never really participated in the political and social changes of Western civilization. "The relation of the German to the world is abstract and mystical, that is, musical. . . . The Germans have given the Western world perhaps not its most beautiful, socially uniting, but certainly its deepest, more significant music.*. . . Such musicality of soul is paid for dearly in another sphere-the political, the sphere of human companionship...
...Time of War. The shaping lay in the mechanics' hands of the men who had shaped the wartime economy. They had shaped it to turn out 297,000 combat planes, 86,000 tanks, 41,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition. They had also translated a theory of abstract physics into a practical weapon so efficient that it outmoded all other tools of war: the atom bomb. They had also planned for peace...
...Bois took top $1,200 honors with Cocktails, a collection of lathe-turned automatons on a lawn. Nevertheless, both shows contained a few really original approaches to painting-for instance, U.S.A. Two Cents a Mile, by a little-known newcomer named Lucia Autoririo. Her abstract organization of the impressions one gets from a train window at night suggested a new way of combining time & space in a picture which stays still...
...Some of the Chief's actions had been creditable: the public-works program, new schools, social security, wage increases (which had been vitiated by increased living costs). During the war, he had been a true and acknowledged friend of the U.S. But, under him, politics had been as abstract as a Picasso canvas. When, according to current legend, a prattling infant said, "Daddy, what are elections?" the parent answered, "Ask your grandfather...
...Price of Persistence. As Davis got more & more abstract, he found his paintings harder to sell. For five years he earned $21 a week on a WPA art project. Today, at 50, his persistence is beginning to pay off. Critics have come to consider him one of the most powerful pioneers of modern art in the U.S. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was showing the first retrospective exhibition of Stuart Davis' paintings since...