Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base of an elevation upon which and about which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation...
...limit to its innovations. Under the inspiring genius of James Gamble Rogers, the new Yale library was designed to include: (L) A cathedral of the English decorated period. (2.) A group of Tudor pavilions, loosely connected. (3.) A cloister, (4.) A court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence. (7.) A room in early Colonial style. (8.) Certain...
...view. But in attacking the artificiality in the building, the author of the "Nation" article becomes involved himself in a labyrinth of purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...
...clearing in a fragrant pine forest in North Carolina. There, awaiting its first formal inspection by important outsiders, stood the most prodigious new educational project in the land this century?Duke University, now nearly complete though little grass yet grows on its sandy campus, no ivy on its neo-Gothic walls of soft-colored fieldstone...
...Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the Chicago World's Fair. Among Norman farmhouses for Pennsylvania tycoons, Spanish palaces for Hollywood directors, French Gothic cathedrals for Idaho Baptists, critics were more interested in Delano & Aldrich's design for the new U. S. Embassy on the Place de la Concorde, Paris...