Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Rob Ball was buying his new house, he knew he couldn't talk to anyone about it, not even his friends. Not that Ball, a Los Angeles-based industrial designer, was doing anything illegal. It was just that he wanted a modernist house. "These houses are so hard to come by, I would see the same people going out to see every home," he says. "I knew people who were actually taking off work to go out with their Realtors whenever a modernist home came on the market." So when the family of a good friend approached him about...
...course, not everyone can afford a modernist house. The attitude--simple but stylish living--can be achieved almost as well, and far more cheaply, with furniture from the period. The most desirable are the designs by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. A worldwide tour of their work is now at London's Design Museum and coming to the Library of Congress among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype...
...historian Sarah Whitfield at the Tate Gallery in London, and although it suffers somewhat from the absence of some paintings and omits his drawings and early poster designs altogether, the absence is tolerable. What matters is to have Bonnard in view again. He's one of those modernist masters who seem to keep slipping in and out of focus, not unlike some of the objects in his paintings. He doesn't have the commanding presence in modern art history that Picasso or Matisse has, though in some ways he was as great a painter. Each generation has to discover...
...dinner and watched him consume three double Scotches, five glasses of red wine and three glasses of port, after which he got up and gave the after-dinner speech. The 6-ft. 4-in. Senator swayed above me as if in a high wind and delivered a swoopingly post-Modernist oration that sounded like James Joyce addressing a Rotary luncheon on the planet Mars. His extraterrestrial gibberish nonetheless communicated to the diners an elegant music that left them well pleased and warmly mystified. Do not attempt this feat yourself. Moynihan is a trained professional...
Forty years ago, if any right-thinking Modernist art critic had been asked to list a few FFAs (formerly famous artists) who had not a prayer of return from the elephants' graveyard of reputation, who were buried forever without the least chance of a joyous resurrection or even a polite exhumation, the name of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones would surely have come up. The most eminent of Victorians: by the 1880s, an absolute pillar of the British cultural establishment, admired by every connoisseur from John Ruskin on down. The leader of the second wave of that peculiarly English...