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Inside the house the floorboards are swept clean. On the wall hangs a plaster figurine of Christ and below that is a newspaper photo of President Kennedy. Water comes from a well and the stove is fueled with wood. There is never a telephone, but usually...
Inside the house the floorboards are swept clean. On the wall hangs a plaster figurine of Christ and below that is a newspaper photo of President Kennedy. Water comes from a well and the stove is fueled with wood. There is never a telephone, but usually...
Profuse with C scrolls and S curves, rococo has often been labeled an interior decorator's art. In courtly architecture, such as Munich's dainty Amalienburg palace, plaster tendrils so slather the rooms that the ceiling is inseparable from the walls. Rococo was ornament become form, rather than the link between forms. It added asymmetry to the earlier style of baroque art, as one would add fantasy to fiction. Where the baroque was epic, rococo was lyric. It had a horror of straight lines, as if such were the symbols of reason and order...
Exit Adlai. A few delegates had been warned in advance. On the jet flight east, California Democrats got a mimeographed caveat: "No major hotel has been built in Atlantic City since 1929. and all of them have endured bad years. Such matters as falling plaster, removable doorknobs, detachable shower handles, unopenable windows, droughts (temporary water shortages of one kind or another), inoperable window shades, interminable room service, and lethargic elevators should be reported to the management or shared with sympathetic friends. The latter seems to have the best results. Welcome to Appalachia by the Atlantic...
...first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus' Pinta who first saw the New World...