Word: leger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirkland is a house that has a great reputation," said Lesley E. Leger-Kelley '96. "People I know are really happy there...
Many students tried to transfer from Quad to river houses, citing the long walkfrom the Quad. "Distance is definitely a problem,"said Leger-Kelley, a North House resident. "It'shard to stay involved in school activities...
...Leger-Kelley was allowed to transfer toKirkland House. Her roommate, however, was deniedadmission to Adams House...
Then he started doing other pictorial styles as subjects of his own. Picasso, Fernand Leger, Carlo Carra, Max Beckmann and so on. Then kitsch Modernism, as imagined by cartoonists. The trouble with these versions of Modernist classics 'n' clinkers is their sameness. After a while, it isn't very interesting to be shown that just about anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein, congealed in his cryogenic style. There's none of the engaged imagination, the sense of a transforming mind at work, that one gets in, say, Miro's wild versions of a 17th century Dutch interior, down...
Appel also applauds the modernist glorification of construction, the city and technological innovation. Fernand Leger's "The City" (1919) is his point of departure, its "grandly optimistic if not utopian" vista ushering in a hopeful era of activity and communication. Likewise, Stuart Davis's painting "Swing Landscape" (1938), with its jazz dance composition, suggests a sense of connection, counter to T.S. Eliot's charge of "nothing connects" in "The Waste Land...