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...perpetuating it. The trouble is lack of richness, variety and delight, and the result is monotony. Architects and designers who recognize the problem are checking on themselves, re-examining the very style against which they once rebelled. They are searching for clues to the missing elements in much of mid-20th century architecture and design...
Webster neatly summarizes the conventional, science-minded attitude: an approach to truth that bypasses "ordinary sense perception" adds up to nothing but "vague speculation." Yet mystics-the experimentalists of religion-may not seem so unscientific to a mid-20th century psychiatrist. This is the case in a new book, The Cloud of Unknowing (Julian Press; $4), a psychologist's rendition of one of the great mystical classics of Christianity...
MUSEUM directors are 'haunted by the unhappy examples set by many of their elders, who, if they had had sagacity, could have bought a fortune in paintings hot off the easels of their contemporaries. Mid-20th century U.S. painting offers just such a challenge. Will posterity view the volcanic eruption of abstract art as one of the U.S.'s most dynamic periods? Museums all over the country are now hedging their bets by cautiously buying contemporary abstractions. One museum that has decided to buy as if there were no doubt is Buffalo's 52-year-old Albright...
...paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya, Delacroix, Corot and El Greco (see color pages). The show represents the utmost in mid-20th century moneyed taste...
...organic whole, surrounded with buildings of brick weathered sienna brown and warm pastel shades. The square is large enough to hold the town's whole population in its sloping, shell-shaped form, unified with simple, geometric lines radiating out from the Palazzo Pubblico. It is the site of mid-20th century celebrations that match in gusto those which so delighted the Renaissance storyteller Boccaccio...