Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears the title of Lady Elizabeth Kinnaird) or sheer absentmindedness, Author Eliot keeps drifting away from her subject-how a parcel of status-seeking mammas, nouveau riche papas, dutiful daughters and out-of-pocket noblemen staged the great white fortune hunt, or coronet safari, of the late 19th century...
...this reviewer, much of Frank Lloyd Wright's work has disquieting touches of fussy decorativism and makes obsessive use of the forms of nature, reminiscent of the mannered Art Nouveau school. It is in the Bear Run, Pennsylvania, home of Edgar Kaufmann, made in 1938, that Wright scores a complete triumph, a building that is livable, reserved, elegant, yet amazingly natural...
...translation-is. of course, sheer nonsense. The Satyricon is as impure and guileful as anything in literature, and Petronius was mocking Roman bluenoses when he pretended to deny it. But the great gaiety of the work, and the sharpness with which Petronius satirizes esthetes, pedants, bad poets, the nouveau riche and the rapacious poor, lift this gutter odyssey well above the merely pornographic. The fragment that remains of the original huge manuscript is a mixture of prose, poetry and puns, fustian rhetoric and sweaty argot...
...gallery devoted to the art of the 20th century, the atmosphere is established by two great works in it--both of them by Picasso, both dated 1901. La Femme au Chignon is a pre-Blue Period work in which the elongations and winding curves of the Art Nouveau and the flat picture plane and pure colors of Gauguin are employed to render a mood which is Picasso's alone. The other painting, the Maternite, is a great masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies...
...Nouveau is just beginning its vogue. New York's Musum of Modern Art plans an enormous exhibit of the school this summer and similar shows elsewhere will surely follow. Aside from the pleasant but confusing inclusion of Munch and Lautrec, the Busch-Reisinger's well-chosen exhibit gives one a full picture of the Art Nouveau--its frequent failures as well as its undeniable successes...