Word: pseudo-classicism
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Before he became a novelist, Thomas Hardy was an architect. Though he seldom practiced his profession, he never quite abandoned its principles. Like Victorian buildings, his books were sturdily constructed, gloomy, and based on strong, pseudo-classic foundations -mostly imitation Greek tragedy. The film of Far from the Madding Crowd...
It's a Russian film and naturally there's plenty of pseudo-classic montage, dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The...
Architecture as such is of course outside of the province of the Fogg Museum, but as sculpture was used in connection with architecture in many of the great buildings of the world, certain sculptured details from buildings serve admirably as illustrations of these sister arts. In the 17th and 18th...
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