Word: neoclassicism
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Igor Stravinsky's attempt to describe his Persephone was not too illuminating: "A nose," he said, "is not manufactured; a nose just is. Thus, too, my art." In the case of Persephone, the nose is neither ballet nor oratorio nor melodrama. A curiously hybrid work, it was first performed...
His paintings and frescoes covered the walls of some of Europe's noblest palaces, from the Archbishop's Palace in Udine to the Prince-Bishop's Residenz in Wiirzburg to the throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater...
Silver & Snuff. Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs...
Consequently, the American suburb while retaining its conceptual ideal to some degree has become a composite: neoclassic in its long, straight sidewalks; American in its different textured materials; and romantic in its gentle, rolling lawns, according to Creese.
To the strict Aristotelian, Shakespeare is a kind of monumental fluke of genius, and Steiner skillfully covers a century of frantic effort among playwrights and critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful...