Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans will always lose the popularity contest to the Democrats because "sharing the wealth" is a much more salable term than an abstract word like freedom...
...embraced too many opposites to be more than partially comprehended: visionary and tyrant, molder of men's souls and master of men's lives, the abstract theoretician ruthlessly presiding over the liquidation of his opponents, the roly-poly uncle of his country dunking in the Yangtze. But Americans had learned to be comfortable with Mao. So long as he lived, China would not be especially friendly; neither would it be overly hostile. Now there is apprehension about which way the country may tilt. Mao's death was like the toppling of a giant, enigmatic idol, and nobody...
Political Corpses. The notion that Mao's China is partly a captive of its his tory has been developed by an entire generation of China scholars. Most have discussed the tenacity of tradition in sketchy, abstract terms. Solomon's skillful blend of words and pictures brings the past and present into sharp focus...
...link between this world of phys ical prowess and Delaunay's abstract disc-paintings was light. The filament bulb was just beginning to transform the appearance of Paris, and artificial light fascinated Delaunay. His earlier paintings, done under the influence of Seurat and the pointillists, contained sun discs rendered in thick dabs of pure color. A recurrent image in the poetry of the pre war avantgarde, especially in Apollinaire's, was of a world revived, bathed, transformed by natural and artificial light. That was the essential subject of Delaunay's disc-paintings. An eye used...
There is something undeniably stodgy and programmatic about his abstractions from the late '20s and '30s; they suffer from the earnestly Utopian look of most geometrical abstract painting in France between the wars. Many of them are scarcely better than sophisticated Art Decoornament. From then on his wife became the stronger half of the creative partnership. But his precocious early work remains extraordinary, even six decades later: an embodiment in paint of Paris' traditional nickname, La Ville Lumiere...