Word: adee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plain Jewel Casket. Placed almost directly in the center of bustling, industrial Coventry, the new cathedral makes no attempt at a dramatic façade. Its massive pink brick walls form a squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted cross (the building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained...
...most striking thing about it is its use of ancient secrets to produce modern magic. It does indeed look something like a temple, neatly set within a plaza and punctuated by sloping terraces, sweeping public walks, and an endless play of light and shadow on a façade so deliberately broken up that it ignores floor lines except at the top. "It has a beautiful scheme," said Architect Walter Gropius...
...weeks since the followers of ex-Dictator Juan D. Perón scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron...
...knows what the apostles and disciples really looked like. Even so, argues Artist Ade Bethune in Sacred Signs, a bulletin interested in liturgical arts, modern painters seeking to portray Christ's first followers should not consider themselves free to draw as they see fit. Instead, the contemporary painter should respect "the collective memory of the Church" by following the traditional portrait guidelines that were laid down by the early Christian painters. These models are still followed by the icon makers of the Eastern churches-and, in the case of Christ, by most Western painters...
...moving expression of fear that in an instant turned Ruth Gikow from aspiring commercial artist to aspiring fine artist. The new goal was elusive. She turned from social realism to semi-abstractionism, but she still felt restive. "It seemed as if everything I was doing was a façade, too decorative and too much on the surface. I wanted to get underneath things, to be more involved with individuals, and to get away from facelessness...