Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek the expression of modern contour and character...
...Chrysostom's stands at No. 1424 North Dearborn Parkway, on the edge of Chicago's "Gold Coast." Originally it was a small vine-covered church. Now it looms, magnificently Gothic, splendid rival of St. James, Chicago's other great Episcopalian church...
...continuance of the Dance; it must have been infinite optimism that, turned back from Copley Square by the University's authorities, and rebuffed from Memorial by the students themselves, was a balm strong enough to help the class upon a third road. Since 1922 stained glass and pseudo-Gothic vaults have reverberated once each year to jazz; but Protean student opinion stops changing for a moment, and finally agrees that bare wall expanse deadens good cheer. Back Bay is forbidden--all the better does the Harvard luster of the affair show...
...store-window decorating owes much of its momentum to Mr. Geddes' early influence. He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries. He was co-architect of Manhattan's new Guild Theatre. When Producer Max Reinhardt staged The Miracle in the U. S., Mr. Geddes transformed the theatre into a Gothic sanctuary which cast a mediaeval and holy glamor on the nunneries. Now, among other projects, he is designing automobiles and a Detroit factory...
...services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...