Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...speaking of U. S. art students Painter Henri Matisse once said: 'They must be great artists, they must be geniuses, why cannot they content themselves with being painters. Then some day they might be good painters, perhaps...
This is significant of the so-called Mexican Renaissance, which has occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they went home and looked around. They saw that no use was being made of native material. The official artists were but feeble, academic imitators of the Spanish school of Zuloaga. Plainly it was impossible to superimpose Spain on Mexico...
...think, fair to say that the colleges have trained very few creative artists in any field of art, with the possible exception of literature. Even in that department it is interesting to recall Barrett Wendell's complaint that, during his twenty-five years as a teacher of English composition, he had produced not a single great writer...
...afternoon with a few minutes signal drill in which Putnam. Wetmore and Gleason led the A, B, and C combinations, respectively. Ben Ticknor reported with blistered feet and was excused from the drill, Gildea taking his place on Team A, and Cunningham moving up to Team B. Art Devens then jumped into the gap at center on Team...