Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Professor Parsons, the new course, Sociology 6c, will take the conceptual scheme of modern economic theory as its starting point. Stress will be laid on the extent to which economic theory is an abstract conceptual scheme which must be related in its action to other elements in society. The Harvard Crimson...
According to Professor Parsons, the new course, Sociology 6c, will take the conceptual scheme of modern economic theory as its starting point. Stress will be laid on the extent to which economic theory is an abstract conceptual scheme which must be related in its action to other elements in society...
...combined and applied. What da Vinci, by using a real woman's face, expresses in his "Mona Lisa," Klee would express by varying the hues, intensities, and values of certain color combinations. Thus, it is easy to see how the transition from a literal form of expression to an abstract one might involve a brief process of receptive adjustment on the part of the spectator...
...finally come to what looms large as an all-important question, one which most people ask themselves when confronted by a work of abstract art: "What is the artist trying to say?". This is a much less important question than the number of times that it has been asked might indicate. But it must be dealt with. First of all, what is any artist trying to say? Is the content of any good painting so entirely divorced from the form in which it is expressed that it can be separated from the form and set up as the idea...
...form of abstract sculpture originated by Artist Calder, mobiles are cunningly balanced contraptions of metal, wood and wire which sway, twist and turn as if alive when set off by motors, wind, water, the touch of a hand...