Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, Gropius, the industrial modernist, did not design a single building on campus until his 12th year on the faculty, in 1948. In that year he started work on the Graduate Center at Harkness Commons, which, although typical of Gropius's work, ultimately encountered severe criticism from alumni. "No possible stretch of the imagination can see any sign of beauty in these structures," one acerbic alum wrote at the time...
...sculpture and body-haunted objects by Matisse, Picasso, Archipenko, Brancusi, Miro, Calder, Giacometti and others -- but because they did not want to serve the social consensus in the way that statuary did. Consequently, few public commemorative sculptures made in the past 75 years have any real importance in the modernist canon; and conversely, modern public sculpture is mostly banal in the extreme...
...unpopularity of modernist sculpture, as compared with painting, is a fact of life. Americans, especially, seem to prefer painting to sculpture because of its greater power of 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...
...most significant architect was an apostate from the older generation. Otto Wagner was, surely, the world's first great modernist. The MOMA show includes a fine display of his masterpiece, the steel-and-glass interior of the Postal Savings Bank (1904-06). It was an architectural space exuberantly of its age, right on the boundary between the classicized past and the industrialized future...
...course, sometimes post-modernist can be different from anything that the students have experienced previously. Nelson says of one teacher, "She's amazing. I come back with bruises." And Keller says that in one of her classes, "The teacher has you slam your body against the floor and do other bizarre things...