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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Sz: 5 3/4"Sq
1904 – October 17
33"H x 20"W x 16"L
Colourful pair of Chinese theatrical masked characters Fig
"Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet" 1979 Blazer Badges Timothy Greenfield-SandersWhat exactly did and does this pervasive word, decadence, mean? For several centuries at least, it was used to characterize conditions if decline; most notably, the corruption, probably Oriental in origin, that ostensibly led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Associated with it were flabbiness, luxury, sensuality, a loss of nerve and skill and, contradictory, excessive concern with formal perfection at the expense of content. But it is only a little
