Word: spatialism
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...astronomer who wants to catch radio waves from space demands a quiet place for his radio telescope. In most locations, "random noise" from all kinds of electrical appliances interferes with or drowns out the ghostly spatial chirpings. Last week, after a one-year search, the National Science Foundation announced happily that it had awarded a contract to Associated Universities, Inc. for the construction of the nation's largest radio telescope in what proves to be the quietest town in the eastern U.S.-little (pop. 100) Green Bank, W. Va., 50 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs...
...standardization of U.S. life resulted from the fact that every American in a fundamental sense is a surveyor: "America has really never yet, in any profound and essential way, been explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between two points, to get the best and easiest grade across the continental divide . . . We have hunted always for the short cut, the practicable way . . . Well this is surveyordom-it is not exploring...
...Most of Jennerjahn's other paintings consider the canvas as a plane and the paint applied to it also a flat surface. The overriding concern is the relation of colors and lines in the plane. Like Mondrian, Jennerjahn aims at purity through the reduction of means. The curved line, spatial illusions, tricks of the brush are all given up. Design rather than texture is the keynote...
...Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical example the figures are worked out with regard to proportion and anatomical exactness, yet they are unmistakably teutonic. In his treatment of St. Jerome and the Lion, a subject which occupied him several times, Durer shows the influence of changing spatial concepts until his 1522 representation seems to be little more than an exercise in perspective. But there is a parallel concern in this series for palpable representation. In the very famous engraving St. Jerome in His Study, light and line are used to bring out tactile values...
...Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical example, the figures are worked out with regard to proportion and anatomical exactness, yet they are unmistakably Teutonic. In his treatment of St. Jerome and the Lion, a subject which occupied him several times, Durer shows the influence of changing spatial concepts until the representation of 1522 seems to be little more than an exercise in perspective...