Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, ACCION's self-help ideal sometimes falls short in practice. The barrio is a transitory settlement of strangers, and the organizational sense often fades in the rapid population turnover. Moreover, not everyone is interested in progress; sometimes various politicians depend for their power on maintaining the status...
...Gabo does not like them to be called abstract, says: "They don't belong to an ideal world of concepts and mathematical calculations." Far from a turning away from nature, he feels that his work seeks to penetrate if more profoundly. "I am trying," he says, "to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of ugliness and horror. I am trying to call attention to the balanced, not the chaotic side of life-to be constructive, not destructive...
...brut (raw art), Dubuffet says: "I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values." To break down the "unhealthy convention" of differentiating ugliness from beauty, he has turned out mudpie paintings covered with coarse scratchings and reduced the traditional ideal of feminine beauty to scarifying yet powerful grotesques. In other series, called Texturologies and Topographies, he has exalted the artistic possibilities of ordinary dirt. His latest works, titled L'Hourloupes (opposite)-probably a pun on entourlouper, "to deceive, to misguide"-dip even further into the mad world to find images...
Coburn observed that "parochial and institutional loyalties" would present the largest obstacle to putting these plans into operation, but emphasized that Boston, with its complex of universities and technical centers, would be the ideal nucleus for such an experiment...
...cage carpeted with shavings and provided with a few means of entertainment. They are also indefatigably curious, run to explore any new object that is presented them. Loving and monogamous, they are happiest when paired. Their gestation period is 24 days, and under ideal conditions they will produce an average litter of four once a month during their four-year life span...