Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real American poets, as to make me look again at the author's name. Have we here an example of that imitation of other artists so instinctive and so admirable in the beginner? Or is it possible that the same milieu is producing again the same type of art? Surely there is no suggestion of Harvard in the work of these two poets, but may they not both express an aesthetic revolt against their drab environment? The other verse-pieces, except for an odd word here and there, like Mr. Damon's 'tinsel-snow," so fortunate in his etching...
...this number is the noble absence of the "interesting." That disordered curiosity to which almost every writer today panders is here ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot or of some human problem. Interests are easy...
...Gans will hold a conference on Municipal Government, speaking on "The Politics of the New Neighborhood" in Widener N at 4 o'clock. Dr. Osvald Liren, of Stockholm, will give the second of his series of lectures on "Giotto and His Followers" in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of this lecture will be "The Frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua...
...will speak on "Critical Events in the Development of American Railway Systems" in Lawrence 18 at 3.30 o'clock. Dr. Osvald Siren, of Stockholm, will give the first of a series of lectures, open to the public, on "Giotto and His Followers," in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock. At the same time Professor R. M. Johnston will lecture on "The French Railroads during the War of 1870-71" in Emerson A. Professor H. C. Biedwirth '84 will address the Modern Language Conference on "Preparedness" and 'Efficiency' from the Point of View...
...recent acquisition to the Fogg Museum of Art is a loan exhibition of notable paintings which will be open to the public from January 17 to January 30. This exhibition is designed particularly to set before the students in Professor Post's course on Spanish Art, fine original examples of the work of some of the greatest artists about whom he has been lecturing. Particular emphasis is laid on the period when Spanish art was at its flood tide; that is, the 17th century. And yet, through the generosity and co-operation or the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...