Among the domains of non-verbal knowledge, music is comparable to language in complexity, in its extensive use of both sensory objects and abstract symbols, and in the richness of its semantic associations (Peretz and Coltheart, 2003; Peretz and Zatorre, 2005).
We found that discussions about broad themes rapidly grew too abstract and stale to capture the richness of context or usefully address the myriad ways in which a few themes play out on the ground.
Codes were sorted into eleven sub-themes, and then abstracted to four themes, as the richness of data made it possible to formulate latent meaning at an interpretative level.
On this conception, for example, the content of any feminist theory should have a relational rather than an atomistic ontology, favor the concrete over the abstract, avoid generalizations about women in favor of exposing the richness and particularity of different women's lives and perspectives, and so forth.
And this, it seems to me, is very important and very abstract - but doesn't do justice to the liveliness and richness of her characters".
Sjöström's production, shot at M-G-M, has a richness of austerity — the black-and-white Puritan-era costumes are almost abstract in their simplicity; the rooms are stern, bare, uncomfortable.
But while nearly everyone today can perceive the parallels between the textural opulence of Klimt, especially his gold paintings, and the Romantic tonal and textural richness of Mahler, audiences still have trouble accepting the links between the Expressionist and formalist-abstract paintings they comfortably admire and the so-called "Second Viennese School" of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.
Essays by an esteemed group of scholars discuss the variety, richness, and complexity of Informalism and examine the ways in which Venezuelan artists embraced many of the abstract, gestural tendencies contemporaneously developed in Abstract Expressionism, Tachism, and Art Informel.
Mr. Thiebaud returns time and again to this blank white background, finding a richness there that has drawn comparisons to the tones of John Singer Sargent Some of the works in this show do tend toward the abstract.
It sacrifices nothing in richness.
