Word: deco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glass art may in the past have been stifled by its traditions: Gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, art nouveau, Tiffany, art deco. Today artists and artisans, students and professionals are creating a distinctively American form, moving away from mere decoration and drawing eclectically from the other visual arts. As Artist-Editor Fred Abrams writes in Glass magazine, a journal for artists and craftsmen: "Glass is the most beautiful and magical art medium in the world,... and we have only begun to explore its possibilities and potential." To which its admirers and practitioners can only add amen, translucent tomorrows and "gret joye...
...play Manhattan's doomed Radio City Music Hall. The choice could not be more appropriate, for Crossed Swords is the quintessential Music Hall film: an undemanding, all-star family entertainment with period sets and costumes bathed in ersatz gold. It's perfect wallpaper for an art deco palace...
Watching this two-hour show train rumble by is about as much fun as getting stranded on a station platform. But it does have razzle-dazzle aplenty. This Twentieth Century Limited is such a glistening mass of art deco chrome that one almost expects the cast to wear sunglasses. The set moves like a centipede on wheels, sliding and swiveling even when the book and score are going nowhere...
...Unmarried Woman, the director leaves his favorite turf, swinging Southern California, for the less laid-back precincts of Manhattan. He has the terrain down pat. The film unfolds in chic SoHo lofts, Upper East Side high-rises and glittery mock-deco bars. The characters are people who favor art by Paul Davis, go to sleep to the purr of the cable-TV news ticker, wear Adidas sneakers when jogging and fall in lust while shopping at Bloomingdale's. They are well-intentioned people, but they have a sad habit of wounding each other. Mazursky -whose sensibility is half John...
...Music Hall was, in effect, a world within itself, a tour de force of art deco dazzle and soaring ceilings that provoked awe and vertigo among the customers. The sheer quantitative excess of its palatial pretensions infected professional journalists with an even greater than normal addiction to statistical literature. Thus the tales of the Music Hall's Boswells are almost uniformly impacted with numbers purporting to measure every major, minor, relevant and irrelevant aspect of the plant. The printed record aches with such data as the number of miles of film projected yearly (5,000). the quantity...