Word: drexler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museum's collection, said Design Department Director Arthur Drexler, "includes very few of those mass-produced objects supposed to be characteristic o; our 'high standard of living.' There are no television sets, no refrigerators, no telephones, not because such objects are intrinsically unworthy but rather because their design seldom rises above the vulgarity of today's high-pressure salesmanship...
...line of development taken by contemporary architecture, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter staged a two-month-long exhibit of his work (see color page), discovered that it had a popular, stimulating and controversial show. Said the museum's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler: "Gaudi's preoccupation with organic forms, his enthusiasm for texture, and the alarming Hansel-and-Gretel atmosphere his buildings occasionally produce, are today inevitably seen against the background of psychoanalysis as well as the history of architecture . . . Gaudi is not an architect to be imitated. But once lured into...
...DREXLER, D.D. Mill Valley, Calif...
...museum also gave Manhattan a look at what it considers good design in cars. Explained the show's curator, Arthur Drexler: "Automobiles... are no less worthy of being appraised for their visual appeal than were Venetian gondolas [and] English landaus." In the museum garden, blending nicely with its modern sculpture, were ten recent models: a Lancia and Siata from Italy, an MG and Aston-Martin from Britain, a snappy little Porsche from Germany, a Cométe and a Simca from France. The three U.S. models: a 1953 Studebaker, a Nash-Healey (standard Nash engine, with British chassis...
...FRED I. DREXLER...