Word: postmodernist
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...young (Longo is 30, Salle 31, and Garouste 37) and, of course, figurative - the pendulum of taste having now swung so far that it is practically impossible to have a rising reputation if you are a new abstract painter. Each, in his way, is a perfect subject of the "postmodernist" image machine, that powerful contraption which, modeled on corporate p.r. lines, has transformed the very nature of reputation in the art world over the past five years. But how good are they...
...Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...
...both bitter and brutal keep gusting up out of nowhere and knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...
...distinguished jury for "significant contribution to humanity and the environment." The first winner, in 1979, was Philip Johnson, 75, who is both the indisputable doyen and the enfant terrible of contemporary architecture. Johnson was followed by the Mexican minimalist Luis Barragan, 80, and, last year, the British postmodernist James Stirling...
...astonishing acrobatic stance of a new room cantilevered from the roof of a bungalow in Birmingham. These transformations are a spontaneous expression of the "complexity and contradiction in architecture" that Robert Venturi, in his famed book of that title, asked postmodern architects to design into their buildings. But no postmodernist would dare produce the assaults on aesthetics that some of these homeowners do. Their houses wear curlers to the block party and are unself-conscious about it. As one Vergara subject cheerfully replied when asked about the style of her renovated house, "Early American Salvation Army...