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...denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations of the New Delhi embassy, with its boxlike shape, gold-leaf columns, lacy concrete grille, fountains and reflecting pool. These works were frequently criticized as superficial and "bargain Taj Mahal," but Stone remained busy with important commissions. His General Motors building in Manhattan was completed in 1968 and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good...
...peanuts, a polished-granite desk name plate, a baseball signed by Hank Aaron, a decorative wall carpet, a wristwatch, three bottles of liquor, a marble-headed golf putter, tennis rackets, fishing gear or hunting outfits, a box of King Edward Imperial cigars, and a real goose egg decorated with gold-leaf filigree and imitation pearls. The Governors' wives received pendants dangling a nugget of Georgia gold...
...fishing village called Edo, now the site of modern Tokyo. Their gloomy castles with gloomy interiors needed an especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right...
...time, few Americans agreed with him. When his collection of 143 Pre-Raphaelite paintings was shown in New York in 1860, critics panned them decisively as "weak and fettered," "the crude expression of Genius grappling with superstition." Snorted one Victorian gallerygoer, viewing a Tuscan religious panel with a gold-leaf background: "More of these d-d ridiculous Chinese paintings...