{"id":42,"date":"2004-02-17T21:46:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-02-17T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T04:46:20","slug":"abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to read Paula Vogel&#8217;s &#8220;Playwright&#8217;s Note&#8221; about <i>The Long Christmas Ride Home<\/i>. She wrote about the urge to empathy and the urge to abstraction, the &#8220;two volitions that underlie all artistic creation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I am happy to find out about the urge to abstraction. I feel at home there. The majority of writing around me is from the urge to empathy.  <\/p>\n<p>Abstraction: <\/p>\n<p>Primitive<br \/>\nEgyptian<br \/>\nEastern<br \/>\nAshbery<br \/>\n&#8220;the outcome of a great inner unrest inspired &#8230;by the phenomena of the outside world&#8230;an immense spiritual dread of space&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;the refuge from the natural through the crystalline, the mathematical, the geometrical, the patterned&#8221;<br \/>\ndistance &#8211; &#8220;to feel emotion, one must have distance&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abstraction, a new window, a new place to go. <\/p>\n<p>Concepts quoted from Wilhelm Worringer, <i>Abstraction and Empathy<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to read Paula Vogel&#8217;s &#8220;Playwright&#8217;s Note&#8221; about The Long Christmas Ride Home. She wrote about the urge to empathy and the urge to abstraction, the &#8220;two volitions that underlie all artistic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}