Word: hermeticism
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Like the ubiquitous religious art of medieval days, Disney iconography reinforces Disney ideology: it announces that this is a complete, hermetic world, an American world that Disney reflects and helped create. And like a pop Chartres, Euro Disney offers an overwhelming wealth of instructive ornament, commandeering the eye and the...
Overall, the stucco and cleft-cut stone will give the Getty a nice grittiness lacking in Meier's previous work. Instead of the usual aloof Meieresque facades, the buildings are full of verve; they are even a bit manic. Instead of sleek uninterrupted planes of metal and glass, there are...
You cannot make as strong a case for the late as for the early Ernst. Some of the sculpture of his post-1939 years was remarkable -- especially the big totemic Capricorn, 1948 -- but his apocalyptic paintings, like the vision of creepy, fungal disaster recorded in Europe After the Rain, 1940...
Many students have had no firsthand experience with different cultures until they arrive on campus and walk squarely into the middle of a grand social experiment. In the past two decades, college after college opened its doors at last to women, minorities, the poor, the disabled. Not only are most...
The bridges need not be ugly, but with very few exceptions (Detroit's, for instance) they are. At their best, skywalks are bland modernist modules. At their worst, they are like the one that smashes headlong into Minneapolis' quirky turn-of-the-century Egyptian Building, nearly obliterating a carved bas...