>>213415706
I think the prairie deco created a lot of interesting art but if we ar critical of a lot of these buildings they where ultimately big boxes that afforded to hire amazing sculptors to decorate them. since nothing of these buildings function or cultural attitude necessitated the decoration the where ultimately lost as the subjects of these details went over the heads of their commissioners and the general observer, and if the subject matters meaning is lost and just handwaved as 'high art and culture' then it is no wonder that once new subject matter went in vogue and it truly contained even looser and more abstract or disjointed meaning then commissioners and observers had no trouble waving their hands again and bowing to the new artists. while a Nebraska clerk in 1900 may have commissioned works with great mythological weight and cultural callback he has none of the education of the sculptors who understand what the symbols and images are from, when 45 years later that same clerk meets a new sculpture from the Bauhaus that is equally opaque to him the reaction and implementation becomes the same for him.