Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...population declines, urban designers must seek an alternative to the modern-day city in planning the future metropolis, a group of leading urban designers said yesterday...
With prancing, stylized acting, colorful costumes and fantastical puppets, the actors of the ART bring to life a childishly innocent fable of love, death, ambition and jealousy with a sheen of post-modern wisdom. It's an easy fairy tale to like--pretty and suave, allegorical but not preachy. Nothing difficult, just an opportunity to sit back and enjoy...
...Time's emphasis on the modern Harvardeducation and the school's academic reputationdistorts its overall portrayal of Harvard, circa1986. Mention of the divestment controversy, forinstance, does not pop up until several thousandwords into the articles, towards the end of aprofile of Bok sympathetic enough to make up forthe unflattering portrait of the patricianpresident on the cover...
...illusion and fantasy. (Sculpture is resistant stuff, hard to fantasize about. Renoir used to provoke erotic reveries; Maillol, never. You can imagine a painted body as flesh, but a sculpted one remains stone -- hence the archetypal frustration expressed in the myth of Pygmalion.) Combine the relative unpopularity of modern sculpture with its awesome complexity as a subject and one sees the problem of this show. There has not, in fact, been such a survey in France, or even in the U.S., in living memory...
...American curator, Margit Rowell, formerly of the Guggenheim Museum. Her speciality is constructivism, and she is nothing if not clear about her agenda. Of late, a great deal of scholarly energy has gone into displaying the continuities between 19th and 20th century art and correcting the myth that the modern art that mattered represented a wrenching break with the past. Without the culture of the salon and the Academy, no Matisse; you cannot imagine a work like Constantin Brancusi's Caryatid, 1940, without its triple root in the peasant woodcarvings of the artist's native Rumania, his study of African...