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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, promoted a school of art theory named for it that led fellow adherent Clement Greenberg to champion abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock. That school named for this word stresses a work’s visual properties, such as flatness, (-5[1])over its content. This is the shorter noun in a modernist slogan advocating that a (10[1])building’s design (10[1])be driven by its purpose. (10[2])For 10 points, name this four-letter word (10[1])for the configuration of an artwork that, according to Louis Sullivan, “follows function.” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: form [or word forms like formal or formalism] (Szeemann’s exhibition was titled Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form.)
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