non-figurative

Walk into any antiquarian bookstore, and I swear you'll find the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley gathering dust on a shelf and/or feeding the non-figurative bookworms.

The Little Professor: 2009

Think about it: as a listener, you're presented with a sequence of sounds, that may or may not have some arithmetically vibrational relation to each other, being generated by serious-looking people working machines that aren't terribly practical, usually in some sort of formalized setting, and somehow, from this non-figurative gibberish, you convince yourself that these sounds mean something, either emotionally or narratively, and you're moved by it.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Dymshitz-Tolstaya early on adopted a non-figurative language (Glass Relief, 1915) and joined Russian radical avant-garde circles.

Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union. Grigorij 2009

Walk into any antiquarian bookstore, and I swear you'll find the Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley gathering dust on a shelf and/or feeding the non-figurative bookworms.

In search of lost nineteenth-century novelists 2009

Think about it: as a listener, you're presented with a sequence of sounds, that may or may not have some arithmetically vibrational relation to each other, being generated by serious-looking people working machines that aren't terribly practical, usually in some sort of formalized setting, and somehow, from this non-figurative gibberish, you convince yourself that these sounds mean something, either emotionally or narratively, and you're moved by it.

I tried to fake it; I don't mind saying, I just can't make it Matthew Guerrieri 2007

By then "I knew for sure I would never be a famous artist as long as the non-figurative was in vogue."

Georg Rauch: A Clear View All The Way To The Horizon 2007

The left's punditocracy naturally avoids ever questioning whether modest forms of coercion, such as waterboarding, slaps to the face or abdomen, sleep deprivation, and deliberately-caused temperature discomfort, etc., carefully and deliberately calculated to stop short of inflicting any enduring harm to the subject, actually do rise to the level of meeting the normal (non-figurative) definition of torture.

Never Yet Melted 2009

While Jewish artists in Kiev chose non-figurative forms of art consistent with their national artistic goals, in Vitebsk their affiliation with the radical avant-garde stream had a different source.

Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union. Grigorij 2009

By then "I knew for sure I would never be a famous artist as long as the non-figurative was in vogue."

Georg Rauch: A Clear View All The Way To The Horizon 2007

But now I point you to Stephen saying about his haptics which, to me, are abstract in the sense of being non-figurative:

ON POLITICAL ABSTRACTIONS 2008