Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have appeared with sounder title to it than a half-dozen recent emigrants from Germany. Their common background: the famous Bauhaus (Building House), which had an incandescent pioneering success in Germany between 1919 and 1933. To show what this background was, Manhattan's rich, responsible Museum of Modern Art last week opened the first comprehensive show of Bauhaus work yet held...
Fascinating to many visitors, however, were the spare, delicate, geometrical results of Bauhaus workshop experiments in wood, metals, textiles, glass and color. Few could stand alone as impressive works of art, but the best proof of Bauhaus importance lay in the field to which all its experiments were, in theory, preliminaries: architecture and industrial design. Examples: tubular and wood furniture, frosted glass and metal lamps, pottery and other useful goods made in the '20s, which no U. S. manufacturers yet surpass; advanced photography done by or under the direction of Bauhaus Instructor Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy; the second Bauhaus building...
...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
...Frank Coleman '38, and Gorden Windsor '34 will perform in other free-style events. Darlo Berizzi '38 is tentatively scheduled to swim the breastroke events. Coach Hal Ulea's line-up a mystery until tonight, but his men will probably swim as follows: 150 medley relay Max Krans and ARt Boaworth; 100 backstroke, Boaworth and Craig Moore; 100 breastroke, Kraus and Phil Walker. The free-style positions will be held down by freddis Griffin, Eric Cutler, Ed Hewitt, Frank Powers, Johnny Quinlan, and any Stowells who can get off the sick list in time...