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Modernist tomfoolery; we’ll break even international conventions on historical preservation for the sake of a moral anyone can learn by watching a Disney movie.
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
Modernist tomfoolery; we’ll break even international conventions on historical preservation for the sake of a moral anyone can learn by watching a Disney movie.
If it even gets installed, watch in two decades as the old windows are returned once the banal novelty wears off.
- vidarh 2y agoModernism as an art-style is substantially closer in time, to the windows being replaced than to the present day. Modernist art started in the late 1800's century, and lasted into the early 1900's. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's restoration of Notre-Dame started in 1844, and Viollet-le-Duc is often hailed as a prominent theoretician of modernism.
- troupo 2y ago> Modernist tomfoolery; we’ll break even international conventions on historical preservation for the sake of a moral anyone can learn by watching a Disney movie. What are you on? You could, I don't know, actually look at the use of stained glass in churches and seen that the new windows fit squarely in the tradition of Catholic Church: https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/catholic-church-stained-glass https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/catholic-church-stain... Not to mention that the current glass from the 19th century was literally put there by "the father of modern/modernist architecture"