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...take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended act. Mr. Manson was made the arbiter of whether any given piece of carving was a work of art (duty free) or not. After inspecting two samples by Constantin Brancusi and Hans...
...Brancusi piece, entitled Sculpture for the Blind (see cut), was simply a large egg smoothly carved in marble and resting on a rough marble base. A blind person might find pleasure in feeling it. Hans Arp's rounded wood carving was called Sculpture Conjugate because his wife worked on it too. In defense of both, long, indignant letters began to uncurl in London newspapers. Director Guggenheim swore that she would pay the duty if necessary but the show must go on. Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have...
Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...
...There are also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest merit in themselves. A small show of advanced abstractionists like Klee, Miro, Arp and Masson was added to the exhibit by Director Barr to show that some living painters are not very distant in spirit from the Mtoko masters...
Leaves and Navels (Hans Arp...