Word: empiricists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What one sees today, especially in Brooklyn, is a different Courbet. He is a painter immersed both in popular art and in the traditions of his medium (Caravaggio, the Le Nains, Corot). He is inventive, yes, but not in a burn- the-Louvre way. He is an empiricist (though not without sentimental moments) for whom the sense of touch preceded that of sight. What the vibration of light would be to Monet, the force of gravity was to Courbet. It is the physical law that insinuates itself into almost every one of his images, confirming their materiality and stressing their...
...question is whether the University should take the approach of an empiricist or a reformer. As an empiricist it attempts to juggle relativity; as a reformer it attempts to bring people around to a point where they understand what is wrong with harassment...
...hallmark is that I'm an empiricist, and as such I need to leave my office from time to time to talk with labor leaders," Medoff says, adding. "Someone who's a theorist may gain less...