Word: subjectless
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...absent. What has rushed in to fill the void is geometry, in so many varied forms that even Euclid would be puzzled. Sculpture, in this exhibition at least, has lost its Renaissance meaning and turned into ideological architecture. Big, bold, brightly colored shapes keep turning corners in the most subjectless, unliterary and unsensual art that the 20th century has up to the present produced...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...
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