Word: fusion
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Nevertheless, the idea of a fusion between radical art and radical politics, of art as a direct means of social subversion and reconstruction, has haunted the avant-garde since Courbet's time. On the face of it, it has a kind of logic. By changing the language of art. you affect the modes of thought; and by changing thought, you change life. The history of the avant-garde up to 1930 was suffused with various, ultimately futile, calls to revolutionary action and moral renewal. They were all formed by the belief that painting and sculpture were still the primary...
...will receive several shipments this spring, each consisting of a thimbleful of irradiated material, which will be used in research for nuclear fusion reactor walls...
...material that will be shipped to MIT from Oak Ridge Laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is highly irradiated metal for use in tests to find a safe material for the construction of fusion reactors...
Nevelson's attempt at a fusion of painting and sculpture ended by confusing her reputation during the 1960s. The art Establishment was dominated by a formalist view that took it as gospel that art should be "self-defining"-so that painting must eliminate every attribute not unique to painting, and sculpture likewise to sculpture. To this Establishment Nevelson seemed impure to the point of sloppiness and her love of metaphor and allusion quite improper. Nor did it help that she was a woman. Thus, in one of the most celebrated curatorial blunders in recent memory, she was left...
...remote solution to many of atomic energy's problems may be nuclear fusion. The fission reactors now in use create energy by splitting atoms apart, but in fusion, atoms are smashed together. This method is potentially cheaper and safer. Experts, however, say that the technology is at least 25 years...