Packet L: Tossup 11

Word forms acceptable. The path from “attitudes” to this concept provides the subtitle of Live in Your Head, an avant-garde exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann (“ZAY-mahn”). Different choices for this title concept mirror different feelings, according to Susanne Langer’s follow-up to Philosophy in a New Key. Clive Bell, who theorized this concept’s “significant” type, (10[1]-5[1])promoted a school of art theory named for it that led fellow adherent Clement Greenberg to champion abstract (-5[1])expressionists like Jackson Pollock. (-5[1])That school (-5[1])named for this word (-5[1])stresses a work’s visual properties, such as flatness, (-5[2])over its content. This is the shorter noun in a modernist slogan advocating that a (10[1])building’s (10[1]-5[1])design (10[4])be driven (-5[1])by (-5[1])its purpose. (10[7])For 10 points, (10[2])name (10[1])this (10[2])four-letter (10[2])word (10[1])for the (10[1])configuration (10[1])of an artwork (10[3])that, (10[1])according to Louis Sullivan, “follows function.” (10[2])■END■ (10[10])

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