Word: purism
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...geometrical shape--and thus close to the ambiguous line between living and non-living--and are set in regular rows. The light which makes them grow is too diffuse and dull to be sunlight; the forms seem to be machined flat in a manner that is occasionally reminiscent of Purism and its lathed still-lives...
Secondly, Kopkind labels radio rock, record rock and TV rock dehumanizing simply by association when he claims their combination lessens the quality of the art. This is the worst kind of purism. There has never been a time when wide-accessibility imitations of live rock weren't the foundation of the industry. The whole concept of live performances grew out of a popular desire to see what we were listening to Finally, "an upbeat emotional experience" isn't the issue; appreciating the music is. Here Kopkind shows his own ignorance of the industry. Because it is the audience performer music...
...imitate Johnson. He is an architect of sensibility, not polemics, and his work has no discernible core of aesthetic theory. It is all taste, exemplary in its detailing and finesse of decision. Though he was trained in the strict, functionalist idiom of Mies and Gropius, Johnson believes such purism "is winding up its days." "Structural honesty," he declared in 1961, "seems to me one of the great bugaboos that we should free ourselves from very quickly...
Latest victim of Maoist "purism" is Poet Kuo Mojo, 74, longtime president of the Chinese Academy of Science. Kuo recently confessed that "strictly speaking, according to the standards of today, all that I have written should be burned." Other intellectuals who threaten Mao's pre-eminence as poet and philosopher have also come under attack, including Peking's Deputy Mayor Wu Han, who is China's leading historian. The official army newspaper chimed in against "antiParty elements [who are] responding to the great international anti-Chinese chorus of imperialists and various reactionaries to revive the Chinese reactionary...
Died. Amedee Ozenfant, 80, French painter and art theorist who, along with Le Corbusier, issued a 1918 manifesto in Paris denouncing cubism, as then practiced, for being too preoccupied with geometry, instead urged artists to return to the real world, a concept he called "purism"; of a strangulated hernia; in Cannes...