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...style, if one can so compress it, was more than just a Spanish mutation of Art Nouveau, which the Catalans called modernisme. It was obsessed with the meaning of local nationality and the eternal pressure of the past. It was full of myth, decoration, narrative, metaphor: a speaking architecture, overrich for some purist tastes but of interest to anyone today who wants to see how social and historical meanings are embodied in new building...
...never more than the sum of their odd and luscious details. His best buildings, like the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904-08), stick rather intently to a naked neoclassicism. His supposed apotheosis, the Palais Stoclet (1905-11), is handsome in elevation but ponderously classical in plan and, in all, fussy and overrich. Loos used lavish materials too, but with a redeeming simplicity. He was a hard-liner about tarting up facades: "Ornament equals crime," he wrote. And though Loos' polemical celebration of yeoman-like unoriginality was a bit disingenuous, his own architecture -- as in the controversial Goldman & Salatsch building -- was indeed relaxed...
Your essay on the mood of the people [Jan. 24] captured the fact that we are tired of being tired, sick of being sick. It is indeed possible for a culture to be old, mature and perhaps overrich with experience, and yet still eager to meet and master its new challenges...
Director Jutra's attention wavers for a while between Benoit and the family of the deceased boy, and as a consequence the film becomes slightly un raveled before it reaches its climax. The movie is also overrich in incidents, since Jutra and Perron are too anxious to cram everything in. There is an excess of vivid but extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best...
...little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
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