Word: symbolisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incidentally the sympathetic treatment which Mr. Cummings, despite his eccentricities, his appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's...
An urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James...
The Salvation Hunters. What was reported to be a seven-league stride in pictures turned out to be only a good broad jump. Josef Von Sternberg has done things that were never done before. He has created a picture all nickeled and new. His supply of novelty ran out. He...
At three other basilicas in Rome? St. John Lateran, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Mary Major?specially deputed cardinals will "batter down" other holy portals. The symbolism of the rite is variously interpreted?by some as representing the return of Adam and Eve (i.e., humanity) to Paradise through the intercession...
Utility. Aside from its symbolism, high construction appealed to the Pittsburghers for the flexibility it affords in the use and arrangement of space. With the exception of the medical and dental schools, the entire University will be quartered in the pile, uncrowded even when its students number 12,000. Moreover...