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I films remember as a child looking at architecture from films the 1950s, or "high modernist" architecture, and thinking that I had never seen anything so hideous in my entire life. And that was when it was about 25 years old, I suppose. And now high modernist design is the most fashionable design in the films city. If you go around and look in the trendy stores selling used furniture in the East 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. 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.
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