Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia Museum of Art, you pass fluttery rococo plaster nymphs in the ornate beauxarts classic entrance hall. The abrupt aesthetic change is like jumping from a sauna into a cool swimming pool. Titled "Design Since 1945," the exhibition (through Jan. 8) presents a world based on the primacy of function, which beautiful form is supposed to follow automatically. It often does. Modern style is the only authentic one of our time, and modernists and their friends therefore peremptorily equate modern with good. It often...
...exhibition presents a world born in illusion and doomed to confusion. Modern design began with the notion that artists and craftsmen, rather than technicians, should shape products made by machines, giving beautiful form to rational function, "liberating" the toiling masses from the "crime" of ornament and clutter. By 1945, Bauhaus idealism was established in the U.S. Textile Designer Jack Lenor Larsen writes that the movement became "a cause, allied with the optimism of a world to be made over in the light of the Four Freedoms. The solution was so simple and clear-and naive...
...needs to be fairly naive these days to believe that artists can literally function as shamans or magicians. Certainly Motherwell does not think so. But he fervently believes in the efficacy of signs, the ability of quite simple configurations to carry and release powerful associative cargo. The blue triangle of paint above the ocher and earth-red bars of Summertime in Italy, No. 28, 1962, offers all the sense of being in a landscape: light and wind stream from the blue, heat radiates from the brown. Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, a lengthy series that lasted some...
...Treasury, the administration has not yet recovered from the crippling embarassment of Barbara Honegger's resignation from her post as Special Adviser on Women's Issues. The attitude of the White House towards Honegger was adequately summed up in Larry Speakes' reference to her as a "Munchkin" whose only function was to give children Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn--a function which Speakes was apparently not aware that Second Lady Barbara Bush has fulfilled in recent years...
...with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function of marriage, that love activity benefits husband and wife mentally and physically, that wives should be as forward in the play as husbands...