Word: tanka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than as an activity which the objects engage in. He abstracts a motion into a frozen form; the movement of the swirling water, for example, is captured as an object with no dimension in time and space. The articulation of the borses' musculature in the 17th century Tibetan tanka (fig. 3) is rigid and eternally frozen in time, yet force and violent motion is unequivocally implied...