Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primal theme of painting, and his desire to find a refined hedonistic syntax for it, winds back beyond Greenberg to the fact that he spent his time as a student in Washington looking at the Bonnards in the Phillips Collection rather than the Picassos at the Museum of Modern...
...almost never giddy. There is an unabashedness about construction and materials, but this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaintness does not excite...
...natural that Diane Legge Lohan, being a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Chicago office, designs rather conventionally modern corporate buildings. But in her printing plant for the Boston Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms...
...editor and lover, she "had put herself in the service of such people. Perhaps she had done so because she wished to be more like them, although she knew she belonged to another, lesser species, the race of people who answer their phones and fold the bath towels." Like modern folk everywhere, she also yearns for meaning in life, or at least an organizing principle, and Paul's ego is big enough to provide it, "to make life cohere, like...
...with heavier fabrics like cashmere or gabardine, then use an airy silk or supple jersey to soften up things below. "My clothes are not of the moment," Ozbek says, speaking in his hurried, lightly accented English. "Take all the accessories away, and they are classical. But can I say modern classic? You can wear them a season past, mix them up with other pieces." Indeed, a bit of Ozbek swank like a long black, clingy dress with a fuchsia moire top that relocates the neckline several miles south would look great at a dance club or -- with slight modifications...