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Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.[1] In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such...


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Artforum International
On Abstract Art.
11/01/1997: 1,421 words, approx. 5 pages
Move up close, back away. Now you see it, now you don't: "it" being, depending on your point of view, either the material surface of a painting, or the illusions it was meant to constitute before your very eyes. This used to be...
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ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Abstractions of visual abstracting.(semantics and art)
12/01/2004: 628 words, approx. 2 pages
THE TWO DESIGNS reproduced on the covers of this issue of the General Semantics Bulletin (see page 569) were made by Margaret Nelson, who classifies herself nowadays as housewife and mother, and Lillian Charney, Executive Secretary, Canadian Home & School & Parent-Teacher Federation....
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AP News
Vent Cover: Rude Gesture or Cactus?
8/16/2006: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
A vent cover on the side of a house looks like it might be a rude hand gesture. Then again, it might be a cactus, abstract art-style. It depends if you're the owner or a neighbor. "This kind of shows...
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The New York Observer
Guggenheim Wouldn't Be Museum If Not For Hilla Rebay
6/19/2005: 730 words, approx. 2 pages
For anyone with a serious interest in modernist painting and its role in shaping the course of 20th-century American art, the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has a fascinating story to tell. The show is called Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and...
 


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American Abstract Art
2,933 words, approx. 10 pages
Discusses how American abstraction uses its cultural resources (i.e. the primitive, the tragic, the sublime, the unconscious) in its discursive claim to individuality.



 

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