Word: spacelessness
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Regional individuality has vanished, replaced by a homogenized, spaceless, timeless world where, in the words of the Mazda Miata commercial, "Blue jeans and white T-shirts were...
...combination of country club and male brothel-and the diversions it provided: duck shooting, wrestling, dalliance, dance, all set down in minute and ceremonious detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise. The voyaging hero has just given a mendicant priest a poem to take to a "lady in the capital...
...formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, awaare of no thing but art (absolutely no anti...
...general, says Brameld, there are four major philosophies that dominate educational thinking today. The perennialists, e.g., Robert Hutchins, hold that "the supreme end of education is the possession of everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth, and value." The essentialists emphasize the cultural heritage and traditional subject matter. The progressivists treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving. From all these, says Brameld, the reconstructionist has borrowed, but he finds each, in its own way, inadequate. Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists...
...gallerygoers got a look at the work of 45-year-old Pierre Tal-Coat (rhymes with kum-quat), who thinks he has found the way. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were trying to attract attention by loud colors, shocking subjects and explosive forms, he had retreated from noisy, "spaceless" Paris to the cool mountain forests of Provence, and to misty abstractions of rocks, trees and streams...
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