Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abstract composition is the basis of all painting-the syntax. Therefore, the young American pioneers are blazing a trail back to fundamentals. Since grammar is not poetry, that would seem to leave Taylor's basic question of communication up in the air. But Sweeney maintains that the prime function of art is simply "the communication of a sense of ordered parts within an all-embracing unity...
...such group wanted help," he added, "it would be better to work with John Thomson. Our function is that when Republican organizations want speakers we do our best to provide them...
...provide capital for heavy investments in costumes and sets, to arrange performance dates, and to withold financial support from inferior productions. Of course, this would involve the surrender of a certain amount of freedom by each group. But undoubtedly some sort of case could be made for the essential function of professional extravaganzas in fostering a liberal education...
...Modern art being as resolutely individual as it is, the answers are likely to be almost as numerous as the audience. Some see in it a new and vital means of human expression; others, while granting the decorative merits of the moderns, argue that they fail in the essential function of any art form: to communicate from artist to audience...
...critic's first duty is to his readers. His primary function is to tell them what they want to know about the book in question, to give them enough information and enough opinion so that they can decide whether they wish to read it. In performing this service as best he can, the critic hopes that he can stand up and be counted on the side of the best in writing (according to his feeble lights) and for the best in life itself (according to his fallible judgement...