But in more recent works Gursky descends
from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.
This conception of the universe is surely framed in terms
of high abstractions, and the paradox only arises because we have mistaken our abstraction for concrete realities (80 - 81).
The actual course of the development of new forms of existence is inconceivably complex, and every account, even the most detailed, is
a high abstraction.
Scientific inquiry is an exercise in
high abstraction.
Rather, the mind develops, following a predictable path from lower to
higher abstractions.
(iii) In describing the world, science can at best associate a cluster of eternal objects (
high abstractions) with an event.
Now we do not mean to suggest here that the everyday ontology of the non-physicist is somehow driven by
the high abstractions of mathematics — although to some extent it is of course driven by current scientific models.
It would be
high abstraction to inquire whether a certain thing is or is not properly regarded as an actual entity, apart from consideration of the interaction of that entity with others.
Science, then, deals with «
high abstractions.»
And yet, on more careful analysis, they turn out to be «
high abstractions.»
This conception of the universe is surely framed in terms of
high abstractions, and the paradox only arises because we have mistaken our abstractions for concrete realities.1
Both the «principle of relativity» (PR 22) and the «reformed subjectivist principle» (PR 167) indicate that any conception of an actuality apart from its interrelations with other actualities, or apart from its satisfaction of subjective aim, would be
high abstraction.
The vertical dimension, i.e., the height of the column or circumplex, represents abstraction: the degree to which any particular soft skill or soft skill category is specific, contextual, and socially observable (low abstraction) vs. broad, context - free, and available only as a student report of a self - reflection (
high abstraction).
The exhibition will give a rounded view of Neel's career, showing her to be a radical painter in the figurative tradition — which was unjustly eclipsed in a period of
high abstraction.
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It was presented to the class as shameful —
high Abstraction being dragged through the muck of commercial figuration.
Ferris doesn't try to tie a painting together or ally herself with an approved of authority — be
it high abstraction (Frank Stella), Pop references (Andy Warhol) or ready - mades (Marcel Duchamp).