Word: ise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ise Gropius, who continues to live in the house Gropius designed for his family in Lincoln, explains "My husband always believed that a good training in a craft, (it need only be one craft) prepares you for thinking in three-dimensional terms, which no drafting board does, or does only in a very theoretical way." "He had the feeling (that later on was corroborated by Herbert Read) that new ideas, new feelings for new developments altogether, came first to the practicing artist, not to the philosopher or scientist; they usually get the message a little later. Instinctive reaction, you know...
...dalliance, dance, all set down in minute and ceremonious detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise. The voyaging hero has just given a mendicant priest a poem to take to a "lady in the capital...