Word: art
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wood Engraving: A Lost Art Revived," will be treated in a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum Monday at 4.30 o'clock by Clare Leighton, one of the most distinguished British artists who have been experimenting in the subject in recent years...
Preparations are being made by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art for its second exhibition which will open on March 19 and will consist of twentieth century French art. The purpose of the show is to supplement the intended exhibition of eighteenth and nineteenth century French painting to be held at the Fogg Museum, beginning in the early part of March...
This gift is interesting because it constitutes the first recognition by any publisher of the fact that Harvard realizes the importance of fine printing and typography. The recent presentation by Philip Hofer '21 of 600 modern books illustrative of the art of printing was made with the purpose of establishing in the Library a department of typography; and it is therefore gratifying to the officials of the Library already to have achieved recognition...
Manhattan, not Florence, Venice or Paris, is the modern cynosure of esthetic eyes. No matter how disinterested the artists, the art centre is always where patrons are thickest, where coffers are bulging. Never before had Manhattan's greatest museum received photographs into its collections. Such a reception was thus a victory of great moment for photography and for Alfred Stieglitz...
...become an ample idler; he took pictures, thousands of them. He had always believed that photography was a medium of art which could be as sensitive, as interpretative as painting, etching or engraving. Out of the confused mass of forms in the visible world he selected serene or startling shapes and contours, the tense grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression...