Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hash Slingers & Barkeeps. The plight of Painter du Casse is typical of most Western artists. After getting an M.A. in art at the University of California on the G.I. bill, Du Casse took a year in Paris, polished off at Hans Hofmann's strong hold of abstract art in New York. But back in San Francisco with a wife and two children to support, Du Casse had to take a job as a furniture salesman, now paints only on his days...
...their communities. Says Portland's Carl Morris: "There's a determination here to find your own way, to be an individual and not get lost in a 'school.' " Besides, artists find that economics works both ways. Says the wife of a leading San Francisco abstract artist, Walter Kuhlman: "If you have to live in a cold-water flat, you'll be a lot more comfortable here than in New York...
...think . . . We studied every branch of philosophy and theology. Logic was our master and the syllogism our instrument." He was entranced by the church's scholastic system of theology, "glittering and shapely as a machine." Scholastic theology's two fundamentals, says Witcutt, are the Abstract Idea (the essence of every object is comprehensible only to the mind, which is immaterial, spiritual and immortal) and the Beatific Vision ("the plunge of the soul into the Divine...
...parish priest in the villages of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Father Witcutt drew nearer and nearer to the God that seemed to lie just behind the veil of nature and farther and farther away from the Abstract Idea and the Beatific Vision. He found that "The God of Scholasticism was unworshipable. Nor do Roman Catholics worship Him. They cannot. They worship the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, and the Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision...
...abstract moral question of informing, obscured somewhat in the Furry case with its complex procedural issues, perhaps emerges most clearly in the controversy over the responsibilities of former Communist teachers in the New York public schools...