To celebrate Julius Shulman's astonishing 95th birthday, The Getty Center is holding a major retrospective of his work.To celebrate Julius Shulman's astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. 95th birthday, The Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. is holding a major retrospective of his work, which also marks the Getty's acquisition of his archive. Shulman's tautly composed black and white photographs defined the emergence and the flourishing of Southern Californian Modernism. The boldly reductivist architecture of the Case Study Houses The Case Study Houses were experiments in residential architecture sponsored by John Entenza's (later David Travers') Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, and their equally fashionable inhabitants--poised, wasp-waisted women in cocktail frocks and square-jawed chaps--suggested an exciting new world of metropolitan affluence and possibility. Here, in a typical Shulman tableau, is Case Study House no 20, dating from 1958, designed by Buff, Straub, Hensman for graphic designer Saul Bass. Californian sybaritic syb·a·rit·ic adj. 1. Devoted to or marked by pleasure and luxury. 2. Sybaritic Of or relating to Sybaris or its people. Syb living at its most delectable. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 11 October-22 January 2006, www.getty.edu |
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