Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his painting the images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural...
...Prime example of the dogmatic spirit is "the relativistic theories of Einstein, which are based on an arbitrary definition of space and time coordinates. . . ." Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner...
...satisfaction of the human soul" "in a new spatial vision." he holds to be more important than structural economy and functional perfection. "More than ever before it is in the hands of us architects to help our contemporaries to lead a natural and sensible life instead of paying tribute to the false gods of make believe...
...altitude of about 1,900 ft., and the ground again sighted . . . there was for the first time a definite sensation of falling. This . . . increased rapidly. . . . This phenomenon . . . lends strong support to the recent theory that the eye and not the ear is the predominant organ in determining spatial position and relationships...
...that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...