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[Mark Kohut]

Monte Davis sezz:

"Not unrelated to that Roger Fry passage that Paul quoted, with its last line: "If everything [in the designed environment] were merely clean and serviceable [the average man] would proclaim the place bare and uncomfortable."

I think this is P's dig in the ribs for many of the "purist" tendencies of modernism, including (paradoxically) the most austere functionalism in architecture. It's the triumph of the meta, in which the reception of a built/painted/sculpted/written artifact -- how it makes its way in the world -- becomes secondary to how perfectly it embodies a theory, how many articles and seminars it inspires, and whether or not it portends the Next Big Thing."


Yes, A-and, like an extra drummer in the p-list Big, Big Kazoo, Ukulele Band.....one who has that persistent backbeat that everyone worries will get too loud I say:

:and real human beings--a vision, granted---can't live in the above, part of TRPs steady melodic line....there is NO ROOM in modern buildings (in general) that is bigger inside than outside--metaphorically--as there is in M & D......


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