Word: epigoni
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These three masters, quite understandably, form the backbone of this handsome show, but their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing...
...down like the clocks that "had gone dead in many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland of all the modern cities where the dry stone gave no sound of water" while...
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