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ID: 300056508

 

Record Type: concept
abstraction (<forms of expression: visual arts>, <forms of expression>, ... Associated Concepts)

 

Note: Refers to a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance, and to the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances. It includes the consideration of a thing independently of its associations; or a substance independently of its attributes; or an attribute or quality independently of the substance to which it belongs. It is the idea of something that has no independent existence; a thing which exists only as an idea. For the modern art movement and its products, use "Abstract."
 
Terms:
abstraction (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,N)
abstractions (C,U,English,AD,U,N)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  B.BM

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Associated Concepts Facet
Associated Concepts Facet
Hierarchy of Associated Concepts
.... Associated Concepts (G)
Hierarchy of <concepts in the arts>
........ <concepts in the arts> (G)
Hierarchy of <artistic concepts>
............ <artistic concepts> (G)
Hierarchy of <forms of expression>
................ <forms of expression> (G)
Hierarchy of <forms of expression: visual arts>
.................... <forms of expression: visual arts> (G)
Hierarchy of abstraction
........................ abstraction (G)

Related concepts:
distinguished from ....  Abstract (fine arts style)
..................................  (<modern European fine arts styles and movements>, <modern European styles and movements>, ... Styles and Periods) [300108127]
distinguished from ....  abstracting
..................................  (<information handling functions>, <functions by general context>, ... Functions) [300054625]

Sources and Contributors:
abstraction............  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Ocvirk et al., Art Fundamentals (1981) 8
.......................  Oxford Companion to Art (1984) 2
.......................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
.......................  Weitzman, Age of Spirituality (1979) xxvi
abstractions............  [VP]
.......................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Oxford English Dictionary Online (2002-) accessed 3 March 2005
.......... Princeton WordNet Lexical Database (2002-) accessed 3 March 2005

 

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