Curtis can be found: The Classical Artist (art, architecture, and design), The Studio Press (essays and books – fiction and exposition, verse and prose).Here at The Ticket we try to avoid underestimating our distinguished readership. Curtis is the Common Sense Society's Artist-in-Residence. (The History Press) his most recent book of verse is, Modern Art: An Exhibition of Criticism(National Civic Art Society) His plays, essays, verse and translations have been published in over 30 journals (Trinacria, Society of Classical Poets, Expansive Poetry, et cetera), and his most recent nonfiction books are, Occasional Poetry: How to Write Poems for Any Occasion (The Studio Press), and The Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C. His monuments and memorials, buildings and houses, including The New American Home, 2011, are found coast-to-coast His relief and medals are especially fine, they include, among others, presidents Truman and Reagan, Justice John Marshall, George Washington, and, his History of Texas, containing over one-hundred figures, is the largest American relief sculpture of the 20th Century He has made statues of presidents, generals, Supreme Court Justices, captains of industry and national heroes, including Davey Crockett, General Eisenhower, and Justice Thurgood Marshall His pictures and statues are housed in over 400 private and public collections, including The Library of Congress, The National Portrait Gallery, and The Supreme Court Later this month, The Beautiful Home begins its graphic, American House Styles, which will picture the growth of each and every major period and regional house style.Ī sculptor, painter, historian, architectural designer, and poet, Michael Curtis has taught and lectured at universities, colleges, and museums, including The Institute of Classical Architecture, The Center for Creative Studies, and The National Gallery of Art Next time, the second part of this consideration will lend particular advice on how to grow up each room of a house, either in decoration, in renovation, or in construction. Tradition is so very large that it tends to dissolve variations into itself, as now again we see tradition do. You have noticed, I expect, a return to traditional houses, to traditional homes in almost equal measure to the excess of progressive entertainments in media, of forceful corporate pressures, of a bossy government that will manage, treat, and instruct citizens as though we were children. And yet, upon occasion, youth grows to achieve wisdom in humility, to find richness in civilization, respect for neighbors, respect for tradition. ![]() Yes, youth tends to be bold in ignorance, poor in wisdom, bankrupt of culture, indifferent to tradition. Yes, house-builders seduce with a candy-counter of sweets. The grown-up house was seldom ostentatious, unless an advertisement of frivolous status the grown-up house was seldom peculiar, unless a peacock display of the insecure the grown-up house was easy in confidence, quiet in authority, simple in beauty, well mixed of feminine and masculine, balanced in its face, and balanced upon the street.Īlways, the grown-up house allowed a pride in family, reserved, measuring its worth against its worthy neighbors always, the grown-up house allowed a pride of inheritance, restrained, tempering excesses of style in respect to neighbors always, the grown-up house regarded itself by behaving like an adult, rationally, with restraint, responsible to itself, responsible for civilization. ![]() Always (well, since Jefferson), the grown-up house featured division of public and private space, active and leisure space, an arrangement of rooms through the measure of the day, neither more space nor less space than was suited to expense and means, neither more space nor less space than was suited to body’s need and mind’s requirement.
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