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To: JohnHuang2
It's funny but the thing that really resonated w/ me in this magnificent essay was Burke's linkage between liberalism and modern architecture.

From an early age (13) I have despised the international style of arch. personified by van der Rohe and Johnson, Ventura is a dog as well. Beyond a doubt it is UGLY, impersonal, and anti-human. All of these characteristics can also be applied to liberalism. Modern "art" is equally as quilty in debasing humanity.

Tom Wolfe wrote a scathing indictment of this arch. in "From Bauhaus to Our House" which, I think, changed the direction of arch. in a significant way.

84 posted on 02/10/2003 6:42:07 AM PST by Pietro
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To: Pietro
Have you read Ortega y Gasset's The Dehumanization of Art?
85 posted on 02/10/2003 7:11:39 AM PST by cornelis
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