The basic concept of curvilinear slope for presentation of painting and sculpture indicates a callous disregard for the fundamental rectilinear frame of reference necessary for the adequate visual contemplation of works of art
Thursday 22 October 2009
Gem
The 1956 letter from American artists to James Johnson Sweeney, protesting Frank Lloyd Wright's curved-wall design for the Guggenheim:
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That's exactly what I used to say about the curved wall in Waikato Museum's foyer. Just after I'd implored someone to take that blinking quilt down.
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