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abstraction

Gilles Deleuze

is a methodological intervention which, after having been done, requires that we must in the end replace what we have taken away if we are to understand it.

if for convenience we make abstractions in studying some institution we must in the end replace what we have taken away if we are to understand it. And the means to be used to reach an understanding of institutions' They are those employed by the anthropological fieldworker who studies social life from both outside and inside, from the outside as anthropologist and from the inside by identifying himself with the members of the society he is studying. (e.evans-pritchard in intro to mause 'gift'' : vii-viii)

is, in art, to some degree necessary in that the painter can and must abstract from many details in creating his painting. Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction.

The painter can and must abstract from many details in creating his painting. Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. (Diego Rivera)

is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning. . . Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning. . . Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. (Eric Maisel)

Abstraction is reality in disguise. (Ian Semple)

is impossible, practically speaking. Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. (Willem de Kooning)

is a faculty that operated unconsciously in past times, when one lived in contact with nature. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy... it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort. (Piet Mondrian)

is the alienation by which culture makes itself known to each individual.

For Marx, abstraction can in no way be search for essences, eternal truths, or universals. Marx thinks that philosophers have formed a false idea of what an'For Lacan, as for Marx, abstraction signifies the alienation by which culture makes itself known to each individual:

is the most definite form for the intangible thing in the artist that can be clarified in paint.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. (Georgia O'Keeffe)

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abstraction