Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRANTISEK KUPKA, along with his better-known contemporaries, Kandinsky and Mondrian, pioneered abstract painting. To look back at his prolific work is to trace the history of twentieth century aesthetics, and the development of an art that tries to embody concepts--non-objective art. Born in 1871 in Czechoslovakia, Kupka came to Paris, the center of artistic activity in 1896, and soon settled down in the suburb of Puteaux, where he lived the rest of his life...
Irons's interest in the law is more than philosophical or abstract. Convicted in 1965 on two counts of violating the Selective Service Act, Irons spent 26 months--from late 1966 to early 1969--in Federal prisons, paying for his refusal to carry a draft card...
...iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...
...speech. Standing under a gigantic orange and white banner bearing the current party Slogan-RESPONSIBILITY FOR GERMANY-Brandt urged Social Democrats to "stand in full solidarity behind the Chancellor and the government he leads." He smacked down the left, telling them that abstract discussions were no help: "You can't do anything with the colored balloons of philosophic formulas and quick and easy slogans." Brandt defended the party's coalition with the Free Democrats and lashed out at the opposition Christian Democrats for negativist policies. The C.D.U., he declared, "is becoming a security risk for our country...
...federal government that won't come through--it's the government, not the city, that would bring on tragedy, plague, exorcism, humiliation, impoverishment and evasion. The government's non-intervention may threaten to open the floodgates to all sorts of abnormal and complex things, but there is "nothing abstract" about the city's problems. The crisis is accessible to plain people; the government's callousness...