Word: intuitionism
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A onetime Spanish ski champion and soldier in the Republican army, Candela came to Mexico as a refugee in 1939. But it was not until eleven years later that he began experimenting with his shell structures and landed his first big commission, the Cosmic Ray Pavilion in University City. Since...
Of the true believers the most evangelical are Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, two Harvard psychologists who have received national attention for their espousal of the psychedelics. Their article on the "Politics of Consciousness Expansion" is written in a stream-of-consciousness style that surely owes its incoherence to the...
In U.S. industry, not to grow and change is not to survive. What troubles many companies in an increasingly complex world is how to grow and in what direction to change. The man they are turning to for many of the answers (though not the decisions) is a new and...
She works in broad strokes, so swiftly that she can finish even a group portrait within a couple of hours. She relies almost as much on pure intuition in portraits as in her abstract expressionist work. "If I paint fast, the painting becomes unconscious, almost as if someone else was...
Drawing on his own experience, Boulez illustrated the variety of ways a work can begin. Sometimes an "abstract conception" of the form arises, sometimes "a purely instrumental intuition" of an interesting combination. Often the composer is like the painter Henry Miller described, who "started with a horse and ended up...