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Article: Mies van der Rohe's art of glass // Remarkable exhibit salutes remarkable man
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 16, 1986
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
The poetry is Walt Whitman's, but it could have come from the
late master of Chicago's skyline, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Mies surely was a poet of architecture. He lived with his
contradictions, just as people who occupy his buildings. And he was
large and, indeed, Olympian - a 20th century colossus sharing godhood
with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier.
All these facets of a remarkable career are explored in a major
new exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, due to be seen in
Chicago starting May 10.
The show salutes a life that began in Aachen, Germany, 100 years
ago, and is ...