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...early decades of the century would have rated him a place on the couch in midcentury. Precisely because Gaudi's work stands opposed to the main 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...
Manhattan architects, who swarmed to the museum's exhibit, came away impressed but perplexed. What lesson did Gaudi's flowering masonry buildings teach in the age of steel beams and plate glass? Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney thought he knew part of the answer. Said he at the museum's standing-room-only symposium: "Gaudi points the way not through a restatement of Gaudi, but by restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect Philip Johnson kicked...
Swept out of fashion by streamlined functional modern, Tiffany's work is now having its first major Manhattan exhibition since his death, at 84, in 1933. Behind the current Tiffany exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is the same unease that has sent architects back to Gaudi for inspiration. In an age when man's vision seems increasingly hemmed in by a machine-made environment, there is an urge to draw new strength from adventuresome craftsmen who knew how to combine richness with beauty...
...Chagall, the University of Chicago hung some 40 of his atmospheric, richly colored works, all borrowed from Chicago area owners, in its Goodspeed Hall. The Chicago appearance was part of a full 70th year for Painter Chagall. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art staged an extensive exhibit of his work; two new incisive books have been published, Marc Chagall: His Graphic Work, edited by Franz Meyer (Harry N. Abrams; $12.50), and Marc Chagall, by Walter Erben (Praeger...
...chief exhibit is Elizabeth Fones, who marries her cousin, Henry Winthrop. Henry is a bad hat who gives her a bad time, and her lot is further aggravated by the fact that her wicked uncle, Governor John Winthrop, seems determined to run the Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative...