"When the details aren't abstract and people are evaluating actual situations and people, the stakes seem much higher for calling behaviour sexual harassment, " says Justine Tinkler, an assistant professor of sociology at Louisiana State University.
She added the decision to switch from the party's previous system of having two principal speakers followed "the realisation that people don't respond to abstract ideas".
"I don't think it's very abstract at all, which is very funny, " she says.
But Deheza doesn't agree that her lyrics are abstract or obscure.
"Going abstract" isn't really all that easy, and the excitement and success of this exhibition comes from its ability to help us participate in the difficulties faced by many of these artists.
WSJ: The Concrete Challenges of Abstraction | Inventing Abstraction | By Tom L. Freudenheim
It may sound okay in the abstract, but it doesn't sound okay around the kitchen table in the homes of those families who would be affected by the job cuts, by the furloughs and the layoff notices that will come if the sequester kicks in.
Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist - who presumably didn't have an interest in his stockbroker neighbours - resided in the hamlet of Springs until he died there in a car crash.
That's far more important than trying to discover one's passion in the abstract, especially when there hasn't been a spare minute to think about any of this for years.
And yet, observing the finest games played around the world without the burden of trying to calculate deep exchanges myself (which I couldn't hope to do), I began to recognize certain abstract patterns.
At times I couldn't resist ignoring the Manet to meet the needs of my own abstract canvas.
But I think probably more importantly, it's the abstract idea of an ultimate authority figure, and to date I think we haven't changed out perception of that person from male to female, or without gender.
Collectors of American Art don't consider Alice Neel part of the Ash Can School or the American Modernist School, and the glitzy works by Abstract Expressionists attract the Post-War collectors.
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