"Ghastly" isn't strong enough.
Posted on 01/10/2012 12:50:46 PM PST by mojito
...The present Eisenhower Memorial design, by postmodernist Frank Gehry, has virtually nothing to do with the Dwight David Eisenhower of history. Plans call for Ike to be memorialized in sculpture as a barefoot farmboy on the Great Plains: not the great wartime leader; not the soldier-diplomat; not the chief executive of the United States who presided over eight years of peace and prosperity. The Gehry conceit seems both obvious and entirely in tune with the postmodern deconstruction of history: There are no great men; there are no great virtues; there is no great striving; nor is there great accomplishment or great service to others. No one, visiting the Eisenhower Memorial as designed by Frank Gehry, would have the slightest reason to grasp the truth of the man himself....
None of it is conveyed by the other elements in the Gehry design: 80-foot-tall, nondescript cylindrical posts (they can’t even be properly described as pillars) holding up perforated metal “tapestries,” creating what Gehry himself once called a “theater for cars.” But what does a “theater for cars,” or any other kind of postmodernist knock-off of a Fifties drive-in, have to do with creating a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme Allied commander who planned the invasion of Normandy, the president who ended the Korean War and who proposed “Open Skies” as a means to lower the temperature of the Cold War?
Nothing. And that, one is forced to conclude, is the idea....
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Ike should be remembered for his historic day.
D-Day. And the fall of Germany.
Screw the leftard detractors.
Cousin Ike described himself as ‘the most religious man’ he knew. That alone would raise the contempt level in the postmodern art class.
Who chose this asshat to be the designer?
"Ghastly" isn't strong enough.
Gehry saddled us with that monstrosity in Seattle at Seattle Center.
If you haven’t seen it, it is truly horrible. It is a building housing the Experience Music Project - which is a melted guitar over the track of the monorail there.
Ugly doesn’t begin to describe it.
Whadda goof. If you pick Gehry to memorialize anybody but himself, you lose!
What dolt tasked the “architect” whose buildings look like crumpled trash on the outside and are always full of waste space for lack of square corners on the inside to produce a memorial for anyone?
If we wanted a non-representational memorial for Eisenhower, we should have gotten someone who actually has a record of designing beautiful things like. . . like. . . well most “architects” are out even if they aren’t as bad as Gehry. . . “artists”. . .no. . . I know, the English fellow who heads Apple’s design department and just got knighted for his design work.
It reminds one of an aisle end-cap display at Target.
I like the trees, but that’s about it.
So that’s not the city dump? ;-)
There are no great men; there are no great virtues; there is no great striving; nor is there great accomplishment or great service to others.
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They must have decided this after they put that ugly Chinese Statue of Martin Luther King up.
Without doubt the ugliest sculpture of a man I ever saw.
Now there’s a proper monument. Bring back Beaux Arts neoclassicism and McKim, Mead and White!
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