Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house is being shown this week at the rooms of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art: When the first rumors of its marvels began to circulate in Cambridge, there was more cynicism and discountenance than even at Brancusi's Golden--Bird, or at the Modern French pictures. Consider a house which is primarily a machine to live in, which can be manufactured in mass, assembled at service stations and delivered in 24 hours, costing as a minimum $500 a ton. Its translucent watts is of casein, its inflatable doors and floors, its collapsible mast, its bathroom...
...millennium in architecture has been reached in the invention of the Dymaxion House, designed by Buck minister Fuller, of Chicago and exhibited this week by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art in room 204 of the Harvard Cooperative Building...
From the offices of sleek Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, who had originally sold the paintings to Collector Hamilton, came a gala descriptive brochure. In it were pontifical utterances of Bernhard Berenson, famed European art critic who hovers eruditely in the background of most Duveen dealings...
Thus was the public prepared for a tremendous fiscal-esthetic event. The art world whispered names that would surely stir the auction-Mellon, Bache, Widener, Ringling. Preparations were made to broadcast the epochal proceedings to the nation. When the bald auctioneer briskly mounted the rostrum, he surveyed a tight-packed attendance of more than...
...visionary young men went to Manhattan, last week, where they joyously, officially learned they had won the annual Prix de Rome, one in painting, the other in sculpture. This most-coveted of U. S. art-student awards entitles each of them to $1,600 a year, residence and studio, for a three-year period at the American Academy in Rome...