Many of our neoliberal architects have taken motifs from the
neo-classicism and art deco styles, often unsuccessfully.
I had just published Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, and in order to co-opt some lines of hostile questioning, I announced in the introduction ("for the benefit of the hunters of subtexts") that, even though I applauded Abraham Lincoln's exercise of the virtue of prudence in politics, this should not make readers imagine I had become possessed of "an unhealthy preoccupation with the
neo-classicism of Leo Strauss." After all, I explained, "I can cheerfully confess to never having read Leo Strauss."
French
Neo-Classicism was"sickeningly sweet inanity," she wrote to her teacher and lover Charles Seeger back in New York.
Although Lewis' depiction of a Native American couple acknowledges their ethnicity through costume details and to some small degree in the handling of Hiawatha's facial features, the style is still grounded in
Neo-Classicism.
Classical Krenek Korzhev/English Symphony Orchestra IN his long life Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) followed almost every compositional trend:
neo-classicism, jazz, atonal, 12-tone, modal, electronic and aleatoric (formal composition with elements of chance).
The marriage of
neo-classicism with Christian virtue is a striking synthesis in many of the women's writings and speaking genres.
As
neo-classicism became more popular, hairstyles changed.
Its extreme
neo-classicism made full use of her astonishing physical abilities - her fierce feet, her high light jump, her capacity to stretch one leg up to her ear in a perfect six o'clock position, to hold an off-kilter pose with a line that seems to extend for ever.
FRIDAY, MAY 22 BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (1pm) Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Experience three generations of composers in this lunchtime concert: the crisp
neo-classicism of Jaan Raats, the contemplative music of his contemporary Arvo Part, the drama of Erkki-Sven Tuur and the lyrical romanticism of Tonu Korvits.
The Criterion, were indulging in "something called '
neo-Classicism'" (Eliot, "A Commentary").
Rooted as it is in a love of 18th-century
neo-classicism (a whitewashed, "purist" take on the garish paint and pagan chaos of the Greeks and Romans), an appreciation of natural beauty and a love of fishing boats and the sea, Finlay's work pits these elements against the bleaker topics of war -- and its relationship to peace -- and the pitfalls of the revolutionary spirit.