Word: symbolisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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F. P. A.: "Surcharged with platitudinous symbolism and spurious poetry."
Archipenko is the quintessence of cubism, the sculptural analogue of Pablo Picasso. He represents a movement which has as yet scarcely penetrated the American consciousness, but is the dominating mode in Continental Art today. Archipenko will never have a great popular following, but he has made his reputation with artists...
Other chapters, unfortunately, serve only to confuse and irritate the average reader, marred as they are by the astounding mass of technical detail--sliding stages, Fortuny domes, swinging stages, and color symbolism in lighting--all, perhaps, not out of the range of community sympathy but most certainly out of the...
Oct. 23. A dismal day. Even the sun balks at smiling on this puppets' college with its box dormitories set up about its crazy-quilt campus, and its infant incubators down by the river. There is symbolism in those twin chimneys of the capitalist power plant. Some day they will...
Oct. 28. To confirm my worst suspicions that this place is nothing better than a hotbed of predigested propaganda, this afternoon I attended a lecture in Sever Hall. It was absolutely inconceivable! Here was a room packed to the sagging ceiling (in fact, I succeeded in getting a seat only...