Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lordly dweller in the remote, cool, abstract world of mathematics, Einstein inspires in ordinary earthlings something of the awe which would greet a visitor from Mars. But a new biography by a member of his household (Einstein-An Intimate Study of a Great Man) ; Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), published this week, suggests that another secret of his fame may be his vast and simple humanity...
Deep and Simple. In a season devoted largely to the abstract, the distorted, the subjective, Eakins' devoutly objective work looked solid, sober and durable as life itself, a testimonial to the best in his country's deep and simple honesty (as well as to the limitations of that honesty). People who had once thought Eakins scientific, dull, dogged, could scarcely fail to warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail...
...Architecture exhibit (1932) was the most comprehensive view of such workers in the International Style as Germany's Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes...
...retrospection and prophecy of the top floor, crammed with pretzel-shaped, chair-sized chips of plywood (to demonstrate the versatility of wood molders); pat-the-bunny samples of various materials; early modern chairs whose box-kitelike form suggested early abstract paintings-and a chair whose fishnet seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter...
...that what I am telling you is the truth, but they don't have the nerve to yell it out. The Chilean has a sense of his political responsibility, which makes Chile the country with the most public opinion in South America. But it acts only in the abstract...