Concrete Particulars

Famous quotes containing the words concrete and/or particulars:

    The Dada object reflected an ironic posture before the consecrated forms of art. The surrealist object differs significantly in this respect. It stands for a mysterious relationship with the outer world established by man’s sensibility in a way that involves concrete forms in projecting the artist’s inner model.
    —J.H. Matthews. “Object Lessons,” The Imagery of Surrealism, Syracuse University Press (1977)

    Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
    On one another, as a man depends
    On a woman, day on night, the imagined
    On the real. This is the origin of change.
    Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
    And forth the particulars of rapture come.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)