Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of Moore's art form has twisted and turned throughout human history; it has run across shallows and been slowed-but never stopped. And after each stagnant period it has moved again in full flow. In ancient Rome the statuary was a way of life, as much a part of the city as the humans who walked the streets. That way of life seemed ended when the barbaric Goths came pillaging, leaving behind them ruins of Roman art. But the Goths themselves, even while deriving from the Romans, gave their name to an art form that took...
...enigmatic but is widely and deeply understood, set forth the face of the future as the U.S. sees it. "Fellow Americans," the President said, "we venerate more widely than any other document, except only the Bible, the American Declaration of Independence. It stands enshrined today as a charter of human liberty and dignity. Until these things belong to every living person, their pursuit is an unfinished business...
...four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...
...right for this figure." He adds defensively: "Some people have said I make the head unimportant. This is just not so. Because I think the head is the most important, I use the head to give scale to the rest of a figure. If one can give the human meaning of a head without using eyelashes, nostrils and lips, just reduce it to a simplicity-the angle at which it is poised to the neck, say-then by making it small, one can give a monumentality to the rest of the figure that cannot otherwise be given...
...began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight. "In our buildings,'' says Yamasaki, "we try to think of what happens to a human being as he goes from space to space, and to provide the delight of change and surprise...