Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising to think of large numbers of artists aligning themselves with the Bauhaus. Over time, Bauhaus design, with its stress on rectilinear, functional style, has shaped teacups, posters, skyscrapers, tapestries, op art, striped dresses, the Container Corporation of America's containers, and T.V. dinners. This is all in keeping with the Bauhaus image of art as intervening to save the visual environment from awesome but ugly technology. Still influential 50 years after the school's demise, the Bauhaus style of teaching permeates Carpenter Center and other university art departments. But this pervasive influence had not yet made itself felt...
...klee's spidery sketches are whimsical, ironic and sometimes ridiculous. They are supported by intricate color grids. Following Groplus' belief of applying fine art to crafts, klee's official role was as a teacher of bookbinding. Two Johannes Itten works exhibited also reveal Bauhaus idiosyncracies, Itten was later to stress a common vocabulary of form, turning composition into a science. As you'd expect, his "House of the White Man" looks like an architectural sketch. In contrast, his "Dictum" of the same year could have been done by a Dadaists. It consists of a word collage over a pink pastel...
...only 170 minutes. For some reason Kahn has adopted hybrid pronunciations for the names Leontes, Paulina and Proserpina; and I wonder whether the Clown's misaccentuation of "lamentably" is intentional. why too must everyone accent occurs some 60 times in Shakespeare, and it almost invariably requires first-syllable stress...
...Overcoming Stress...
Book Notes. The verdict apparently will hinge largely on whether the jury is most persuaded by Joan, who may be impressive on the stand, or by the state's circumstantial evidence. The state will stress a note that Joan made in a crossword-puzzle book, which it will contend indicates she intended to escape. The defense will insist that the note referred to her hope for release on bail while appealing her conviction...