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...series begins and ends in Paris. The Eiffel Tower (1889), that "static totem of the cult of dynamism," as Host Robert Hughes calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...
This past summer I spent in Paris and ran every day along the banks of the Seine to the Eiffel Tower and back. I don't remember a day when at least five people didn't stop me to inquire why. 'Quelle une sportive!' they'd exclaim. They all thought I was training for the Olympics...
...French sure know how to treat a guy! Chauffeured Citroen limousines wherever you want to go (I hit the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower yesterday) and the food is really incredible. The tennis wasn't too bad either. I won my first match against an Argentine guy, but then lost in the second to an Australian in three sets. I played okay but final exams really tired me out, and its been less than a week since I finished. We're off to Spain tomorrow. I'll write soon...
After ten years of work, Arcosanti is only 2% finished. With reason. A visitor stopping by at sunset wonders whether the dungareed construction crew, numbering fewer than 100 and now lounging around the grounds sipping beer, could get themselves organized enough to erect a Meccano set version of the Eiffel Tower. But Arcosanti's supporters are unconcerned that the city could take anywhere from 20 to 200 years to complete, depending on finances. "Look how many hundreds of years it took to build Chartres," says Riney Bennett, 26, a Stanford-educated civil engineer. "Arcosanti will be built, but without...
...newly declared aim, in F�n�on's words, of "decorating a rigid, rectangular surface." Others, like Maurice Denis, wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part...