I will try to explain abstraction abstractly.Let's set aside the so-called programming abstractions like classes, interfaces, ...

IntroductionThis is the second installment in a series where I select and introduce three past articles. This time, I am ...

Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an application ...

Installation view of ‘Territory of Abstraction’ at Pentimenti Gallery (photo by Joanne Mattera) PHILADELPHIA — Abstraction is, by its very nature, an exercise in reduction, in simplifying the elements ...

FEW EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ART attract so many origin myths as the history of abstraction. As a plotline, it’s hard to beat—an intoxicating, utopian rhetoric of a revolutionary new beginning ...

"Organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture"--Page 375. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, ...

Defeated on the plane of the overtly figurative or documentary, this campaign for totalization has lately gathered its forces on the field of the apparently abstract. In fact, a spate of American-made ...

It has been a long time since I saw museumgoers as fully engaged as the crowds moving through “Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,” the visual and intellectual banquet at the Museum of Modern Art this ...