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Bitmap Image  |  1994-11-15  |  58KB  |  242x235  |  8-bit (18 colors)

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OCR: In his later years Wright designed a number of buildings where the overall scul ptural form was preeminent aad the primary surfaces were smooth The Gugg enheim Museum in New York 1943 59 is one such sculptural build- ing Au ivory-colored plaster shell sheaths the underlying concrete structure both inside and out As a result the plasticity ofthe spiral form comes across even more forcefully Perhaps the abstract art within the building, per- haps a comment on the "unnatural

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