Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
...style seemed more surely dead and buried than Art Nouveau, the turn-of-the-century vogue for flowing, whirling motifs and gingerbread gewgaws. Thrown out by cubist artists who viewed such effulgent detail as a bad case of artistic warts, and banned by the stripped-down school of Bauhaus modern architects, the movement that once spread across Europe and to the U.S. had been dormant for decades. Now there is new interest in Art Nouveau-particularly among the strongest proponents of modern art and architecture...
Simplicity Plus Richness. Renewed interest in Art Nouveau has also caught up the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, well-to-do son of the founder of Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., who started out as an artist, switched, along with Artist John La Farge, to experiments with hand-blown glass, and became the most fashionable decorator of his day. Tiffany held that "simplicity is the foundation of all really effective decoration" and he proved that simplicity need not rule out richness and beauty...
...effort to remain apart from his classmates comes, then, from his precarious hold on superiority. The Exonian's intellectual feelings are not unlike those of the nouveau riche. Both are seeking to prove that they have already got what only passing years can bring, while constantly afraid that their inferiors will refute the claim to superior status...
What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...