Word: 1910s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different direction: stripped-down, scrupulous, refined but seldom fancy, unafraid of ornament but almost never giddy. There is an unabashedness about construction and materials, but this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th...
...nihilistic attitudes, bizarre fashion and screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks is that they're not artists or intellectuals. Instead, they're ordinary, often suburban kids, who have no real idea what they're unhappy about...
Unforturately, Alexander doesn't give a satisfying glimpse into some of the broader issues surrounding baseball's early days of the 1910s and '20s as he dwells almost exclusively in effects on the stuff of fanatics the statistics, games and lore of Ty Cobb's baseball career and not enough on the tuff of the social historians for example what effect the emerging game had on American life. He hints at such a subject-for instance in his discusion of Cobb's tumultuous relationship with the fans-but leaves even the most rabid fan slightly testy as the outlines Cobb...
Even the titles of the publications bear an affinity to Dadaism. The 1910s and '20s saw the creation of Dead Serious, Dada and Cloudpump; in the 1970s and '80s we have Impulse, Slash, Damage and Fetish. The element of satiric humor remains: Dada's contents included, "Painting, Sculpture, Drawings...and Vulgar Dillentantism"; Fetish proclaims itself "The Magazine of the Material World...