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Abstract labour and concrete labour

In his book Crack Capitalism, John Holloway (sociologist) considers abstract labour as the most radical foundational category of Marx's theory, and therefore he recommends the struggle against abstract labour as the centrepiece of the political struggle against capitalism.

Accidental damage of art

In May 2004, a fire destroyed the Momart warehouse in east London, together with more than 50 works by abstract painter Patrick Heron and other artists.

Adaptive architecture

Something of a misnomer, because the thing that adapts is the working system, rather than the (more abstract) architecture which defines the adaptability that is required of that system.

American Abstract Artists

The pamphlet excoriated notable New York Herald Tribune critic Royal Cortissoz for his rigid loyalty to traditionalism, his patent distaste for abstract and modern art, and generally for what the pamphlet regarded as his "resistance to knowledge".

Arthur Tashko

As a cubist painter he exposed his art works in Vienna, Austria together with Picasso, Leger, Delaunay, Jean Arp and after a period he met with abstract expressionists Pollock, Kooning, Rothko.

Artificial chemistry

Yasuhiro Suzuki has modeled various systems such as membrane systems, signaling pathways (P53), ecosystems, and enzyme systems by using his method, abstract rewriting system on multisets (ARMS).

BÏF§ZF+18

The book is divided into two roughly equal halves; the first, Simultaneita, contains 12 'simultaneous' poems laid out in standard typography; the second section, Chimismi Lirici, contains 10 poems that use multiple fonts, signs, adverts, brand names, repetition and onomatopoeiac devices that are contemporaneous to Marinetti's similar experiments in Zang Tumb Tumb, and prefigure Marinetti's later, more abstract Les Mots En Liberte Futuristes, 1919.

Binary File Descriptor library

Internally, BFD translates the data from the abstract view into the details of the bit/byte layout required by the target processor and file format.

Burnt Norton

Peter Ackroyd believes that it is impossible to paraphrase the content of the poem; the poem is too abstract to describe the events and the action that make up the poem's narrative structure.

Carl B. Allendoerfer

Allendoerfer is also known as a proponent of the New Math movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which sought to improve American primary and secondary mathematics education by teaching abstract concepts like set theory early in the curriculum.

Celia Winter-Irving

Her own specialism was abstract art and she had one solo show at Sandros Gallery in Harare.

Chemoton

The chemoton is an abstract model for the fundamental unit of life introduced by Hungarian theoretical biologist Tibor Gánti.

Cultural analytics

Most recently, Franco Moretti's Graphs, maps, trees: abstract models for a literary history.

Dana Shertz

Shertz formed The Art of the Unconscious in 2010 to promote the works of his father, abstract painter Max Shertz.

Edgar Stoëbel

Pigeonholed by art critics for too long as something that happened in Paris and especially in New York, concrete abstract art was actually a worldwide movement that spread from South America to Northern Europe, and cannot simply be reduced to the French easel painting of Bazaine, Manessier, Hartung, Estève or Gischia.

Edoardo Alfieri

Some of his works are abstract, for instance the Mele grave at Staglieno, or the bas-relief "Furor Mathematicus".

Firdos Square

The site of statue now houses a green, abstract sculpture intended to symbolize "freedom", designed by sculptor Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri.

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden

It spans more than five acres and currently has more than 70 international sculptures, by figural and abstract artists such as Jean Arp, Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, David Smith, Claire Falkenstein, Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Francisco Zúñiga, and others.

Haiku D'Etat

Haiku D'Etat is a super group rap trio created by drummer and producer Adrian Burley; co-members are Aceyalone and Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship and Abstract Rude of Abstract Tribe Unique.

Hantai

Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008), painter generally associated with abstract art

Isami Doi

Early Spring, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of these later abstract paintings.

Ismail Gulgee

Nevertheless, he was perhaps best known worldwide for his abstract work, which was inspired by Islamic calligraphy and was also influenced by the "action painting" movement of the 1950s and 1960s (Mitter notes that Elaine Hamilton was a strong influence in this direction).

Joe Harriott

Abstract received a five star review from Harvey Pekar in Down Beat, the first such honour for a British Jazz record.

John F. Kennedy Federal Building

The abstract sculpture was created in 1966 and inspired by President Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, and his war record.

Kenning

For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a more abstract compound such as “wound-hoe” (Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8), or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields” (Einarr Skúlason: ‘Øxarflokkr’ 9).

Kirk Varnedoe

He also acknowledged the gulf between those who revered the School of New York and those who embraced the un-painterly successors to Mark Rothko and Morris Louis, those artists who seemed to represent a repudiation of Abstract Expressionism.

Kundalini yoga

(2001) The Physiological Correlates of Kundalini Yoga Meditation: A Study of a Yoga Master, Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback, Jun 2001; 26(2): 147 - 53, PubMed Abstract PMID 11480165.

Lunar Bird

Lunar Bird is an abstract bronze sculpture by Joan Miró.

Manlio Rho

In the late 1920s Manlio Rho was deeply involved in Como's engagement with the European abstract movement led by Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich.

Marc LeBlanc

MDA is based in part on the Formal Abstract Design Tools for games discussion initiated by Doug Church.

Master Order

Master Order and Lord Chaos participated in the congress of metaphysical and abstract beings to determine Thanos's fitness to wield the Infinity Gauntlet.

Monjett Graham

The ongoing study of Chinese calligraphy led Monjett to incorporate that ancient system of pictograms into the design of his abstract expressionist painting.

OH Cards

Two years later American artist David Ellis produced a deck of 99 cards with abstract paintings called ecco.

On the Freedom of the Will

Therefore, humans are capable of deliberation in which a stronger abstract motive outweighs other motives and necessarily determines the will to act.

Pointer machine

Yuri Gurevich (2000), Sequential Abstract State Machines Capture Sequential Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, vol.

Polly Thayer Starr

Increasingly aware of the fragility of her vision, she concentrated on lavish pastels of gladiolas with their bees and an increasingly abstract sequence of cyclamen flowers drawn in chalk on black paper with touches of color, as well as delicate series of graphite drawings based on the life cycle of the thistle.

Purdey Fitzherbert

Fitzherbert categorizes herself mainly as an abstract painter, but also claims influences from Conceptual art movements, Op art, Minimalism, Impressionism, and Light art.

Republic of Virtue

He saw the idea of "Reason" as too abstract for the common person to grasp and believed that the people needed a hierarchical religion to follow.

Salivary diagnostics

Abstract #1179, “Salivaomics Knowledge Base (SKB)”, by W. Yan et al., of UCLA, USA, to be presented at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2008, in Trinity I-Exhibit Hall of the Hilton Anatole Hotel, during the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research.

Sekula

Sonia Sekula (1918–1963), Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement

Sidney Jonas Budnick

He studied under Hans Hofmann, an abstract expressionist artist and teacher, and was friends with Harry Holtzman and Carl Holty, founders of the American Abstract Artists group.

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

Inspired both by American free jazz and by the radical, abstract music of AMM, as well as influences as diverse as Anton Webern and Samuel Beckett (two Stevens touchstones), the SME kept at least a measure of jazz in their sound, though this became less audible in the later "string" ensembles.

Steven L. Sles

Sles is an established and prolific mouth painter; he is most recognized for his variations of techniques, and fiery abstract palette.

Symphony in Slang

Minimalist and abstract in style (many of the "gags" are created either with single, still frames or limited animation), it tells the story of a man John Brown, who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using slang of that era.

The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

According to Beatles author and Zappa biographer Barry Miles, the unreleased Beatles experimental track "Carnival of Light" which was recorded in January 1967 resembles "The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet," although it is believed that "Carnival of Light" is more fragmented and abstract than Zappa's effort the previous year.

Tom Fuller Band

The follow-up recording “Abstract Man” was released in 2009, and the track "Only in America" cracked the top 10 in US FMQB Radio Chart AC Format (sharing the honour with Coldplay, Kid Rock and Maroon 5).

Total functional programming

# A restricted form of recursion, which operates only upon ‘reduced’ forms of its arguments, such as Walther recursion, substructural recursion, or "strongly normalizing" as proven by abstract interpretation of code.

Universal constructor

Von Neumann universal constructor, an abstract device capable of constructing all constructible artifacts of an environment.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Barns-Graham became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the St Ives Society of Artists but was to leave the latter when, in 1949, the St Ives art community suffered an acrimonious split, and she became a founder member of a breakaway group of abstract artists, the Penwith Society of Arts.


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