Surely he is
right about abstraction, it does require contemplation and time, and isn't it also the case that it rewards the time and contemplation given to it.
Whitehead is
right about the abstractions but addresses them (as befits a mathematical logician) abstractly.
Not exact matches
While I am very sympathetic to this sudden interest in mutualism, I think you are
right to enter a cautionary note
about the level of
abstraction at which the discussion is sometimes pitched - the detail is crucial.
I can't say the first abstract images, because I don't know enough
about that history, but they might be
right up there with other
abstractions.
Rail: One of the best things
about right now in painting is that no one is fighting battles between
abstraction and representation.
He said that he felt no compunction
about making post-painterly
abstraction during the aftermath of the Civil
Rights era, only that «it was hard getting [the work] shown.»