Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center will comprise paintings of Cubist and Abstract artists as well as Surrealists. My interests are entirely neutral and my home is by no means the center of Surrealism but is open to all artists in whose work I believe...
...sought to restrict the book to the merely decorative or picturesque it attempts a big canvas, deals seriously with human ideas and emotions, and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible. Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract,' descriptive rather than analytical. . . . It deals with certain important men and women, not to provide much in the way of factual biography, but to express their feelings and ideas, their values and tastes...
...recent Crimson editorial on the Detroit race riots clearly stated the abstract principles involved. Four points, necessary to make real sense out of the whole dirty business, were, however, omitted...
...case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated in abstract terms, the issue at stake is the right of free speech, and as such sounds almost absurdly simple. But in the concrete terms of the Minneapolis convictions, the issue is one that war psychology and a distorted patriotism can easily confuse...
...European painting, Katherine Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme's famed rival, is nine years younger...