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However, don't imagine Koehne's piece to be of the modernist or neo-modernist aesthetic just because it is considered contemporary; don't think "Michel Foucault does orchestral music." Rather, the composer opts for the "Reconstructionist" aesthetic--the program notes state, "Koehne has moved towards an affirmation of traditional values and a vital opposition to what he sees as the sham iconoclasm of the avantgardist attitude." In particular, Elevator Music was inspired by the integration of jazz and popular music into orchestral music. But the piece sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece...
...figures with the same genial ribbing the kids get. Tommy the explorer and Chuckie, his friend with the orange shock top and a chronically fretful nature, are attractive opposites; three-year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought to give the kids' heads the shape and apparent consistency of grapefruit? Who unleashed the hyperkinetic floor-level kidcam? Someone with a smart sense of design...
Richard Meier, the world renowned Modernist architect best known for his work on the new Getty Center in Los Angeles, had been invited to Harvard to speak about his most recent projects. The result was a 20 year, autobiographical retrospective, starting with homes he designed and then continuing with public buildings. It was a purposeful and critical dialogue supplemented by amusing personal anecdotes, nothing too self-important or self-gratifying; his speech was just about his work...
...said she believed that contemporarypost-modernist and post-structuralist modes ofinquiry are a "disaster for students...
...course, not everyone can afford a modernist house. The attitude--simple but stylish living--can be achieved almost as well, and far more cheaply, with furniture from the period. The most desirable are the designs by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. A worldwide tour of their work is now at London's Design Museum and coming to the Library of Congress among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype...