Word: abstractionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful escape from a German prison camp of Jean Hélion, French soldier and abstractionist painter, ranks with the escape of Casanova from the Leads, or Peter Kropotkin from the fortress of Peter & Paul. This book is the detailed description of Hélion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of World...
California's Turkish-born Jean Varda, 49, is a roaring abstractionist. "I can produce at terrific speed," he announces. "I am at the height of my vision. I produce like a queen bee, like a queen ant, like...
During the next five days Abstractionist Hélion and his fellow prisoners were marched 147 miles. For five days they had no food whatever, only what water they could snatch from buckets placed on the road by French peasants. On the fifth night, utterly exhausted, they were waked up by their German guards who screamed: "Run! Run!" The prisoners ran. Nazis fired at their heels. Hélion saw seven men drop dead from exhaustion. Those who survived were given tobacco and food. Purpose of this treatment was: first to terrify the prisoners, then to show them how kind...
...flight Abstractionist Hans Arp had his passport to the U.S. ready, his tickets in hand, but postponed his going. He wasn't sure whether it would be worth while, since he wasn't guaranteed first-class passage...
...treasures Collector Dreier did not give her Société is a painting on glass by Abstractionist Duchamp which she has had built into the wall of her house. Several years ago, on its way to an exhibition in Brooklyn, the glass picture got shattered. To restore it, Artist Duchamp made a special trip to the U.S., pieced it together like a picture puzzle, found that the cracks improved the com position...