Word: surrealisme
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That quality remains; but in the meantime, two things changed its status in the art world. One was the collapse of the idea that art had 1 only one way, the abstract track, forward into history. This made Bourgeois's idiosyncratic kind of late surrealism well worth examining. The...
Paced at a Wolfman's shamble and photographed in colors as cheerful and sexless as the Blands, Eating Raoul could be read as Bartel's comic revenge on Hollywood: like his protagonist, he profits by axing the System. But perhaps this is too heavy a weight for 87...
Michael Graves' new office building is dangerous Pop surrealism
The new Public Service Building in Portland, Ore., is nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves...
Graves has since won other important commissions, notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown 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...