Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durer's print, "The Trinity," we can see a combination of two divergent points of view which are probably the results of this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture. The figure of the agonized Christ, with hands and feet still showing the marks of crucifixion, is done in a forceful, brutal way, yet the entire group of figures, of which Christ is the foremost, is depicted by the artist as floating in the heavens upon a small field of clouds...
Bach: Little Organ Book (E. Power Biggs; Victor: 6 sides). Organist Biggs makes Harvard's 18th-Century-model organ sparkle in a sheaf of Gothic choral preludes...
...Lewis love of extravaganza breaks out occasionally, as in his description of the suite occupied by Andy Deacon, the following winter, at a Park Avenue hotel: "Across the room was a Gothic stone fireplace composed of an entire castle transported from Normandy." Here Andy casts his company for a touring production of Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Helpful Beth is taken on as a page and understudy to the star. On that famous lady and on the supporting cast Lewis lavishes his gift for satiric characterization and incident as the troupe journeys from one-night stand to one-night...
Conservative architects (who appropriately had the ground floor) merely tiled the walls with framed photographs of colonial, baroque, gothic and romanesque structures-all built in the U. S. since 1900. Upstairs, modernists ran hog-wild. Their slick, streamlined exhibit had models of their buildings and shrewd camera shots, featured a credo that made traditionalists sputter. Sample sputter-causer: "The heritage of our generation is the accumulated rubbish of a century of fake fronts...
...give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever before or since. Crammed into the show's seven galleries are tapestries, jewelry, coffers, chessmen, caskets, cameos, illuminated manuscripts, buckles, reliquaries, candlesticks, vestments, mirrors, rings, enamels, glass, pottery, textiles, Gothic sculpture, painting-from Norway to Byzantium...