In America, Nostalgia For Things Is Apt

Everything That Would Be Said Against The Eixample's Heirs, From Le Corbusier's 'ville Radieuse' To Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, Was Already Said, With Far Less Justice, About The Eixample Itself. And All Its Critics Concurred That The Basic Mistake Was To Have Left The Planning Of A City In The Hands Of A Socialist.

It Was Van Gogh's Madness That Prevented Him From Working; The Paintings Themselves Are Ineffably Sane, If Sanity Is To Be Defined In Terms Of Exact Judgment Of Ends And Means And The Power Of Visual Analysis.

Why Should We Expect Modernist Taste To Be Any Smarter Than Premodernist Or Postmodernist?

The Greater The Artist, The Greater The Doubt.

In America, Nostalgia For Things Is Apt To Set In Before They Go.