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industrial, libyan, sumerian, charlie croker, and letters, richard bright, derek, bad, don cheadle, adrenalin, jarule real name, john terry, | When you're immersed in a style, surrounded by it at all times, you eventually start differentiating between good examples of it and bad examples of it. You become hyper-sensitive and humor magazine hyper-critical of subtle elements in the style, and after enough time and exposure almost every example of it starts to look ugly to your rarified tastes. But humor magazine after it stops being ubiquitous and enough time passes, people gets removed enough from it to stop being sick of it, they get a little perspective on humor magazine it, and start seeing the samenesses in it, not the little differences. And after enough time, it just all looks beautiful. Once the Window of Ugliness closes, you'd need to be a specialist, someone who deliberately surrounds themselves with a style in order to be able to still see the ugliness. |
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Right as its Window of Ugliness was about to close it was torn down, unfortunately. I remember as a child looking at architecture from the 1950s, or "high modernist" architecture, and thinking that I had never seen anything so hideous in my entire life. john terry And that was when it was about 25 years old, I suppose. And now high modernist design is the most fashionable design in the city. If you go around and look in the john terry trendy stores selling used furniture in the East john terry Village they're all selling high modern furniture. L: Yeah, mid-century modern is definitely the hottest thing. K: Yes, it's been fifty plus years and the Window of Ugliness has thoroughly closed. It was at its peak in the late 70's or early 80's. That's when Jonathan Richman sang: "the 50's apartment house looks bleak in the 1970's sun." And the broader point that I would take from it is that the whole idea of beauty or quality in culture, in art, is absolutely contingent upon context. |
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