Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color, the blaring vermilion tree trunks, the complex blues in the caves of shadow, the pyrotechnics of green and yellow in the foliage. One moves into the work without strain; it is not an Arcadia, but a place well removed from the realities of industrial and urban Europe...
Died. Jo Mielziner, 74, versatile Broadway set designer (Death of a Salesman, South Pacific, The King and I, Gypsy); of a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of a portraitist, Mielziner studied painting as a youth, then went onstage to get the actor's point of view. He prepared hundreds of sketches until he achieved the design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer...
Maurice Kilbridge, dean of the Graduate School of Design, gave a prepared response to GSD students last night at Gund Hall on defects in GSD educational policy, his role in trying to correct them, and his qualifications for meeting the responsibilities of his position...
Responding to questions on his own ability to hire teachers when he does not have a design background, Kilbridge said, "I see no reason why the dean of this school need be a designer," because he said only a third of the faculty and students at the GSD are in architectural design...
...After his fifth year and one Coty, John Anthony, 38, a New Yorker of Italian descent who worked his way up in the trade, will have retail sales this year of $6 million, and can say: "I don't want to go above that." He explains: "I design for a small, strong audience. I'm a drop in the ocean, but my audience is select. She's a celebrity, a movie star, she's in society, she's a President's wife. She may even be a working girl who doesn't mind...