Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balcomb Greene, 34, onetime instructor in art at Dartmouth, now respected as one of the few U. S. abstractionists capable of inventive, exhilarating design...
Fifty years ago U. S. art students headed for Rome in a fever of esthetic excitement. "I went reeling and moaning thro' the streets!" said Henry James of his first visit. If art students reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation...
...Prix de Rome is the choicest plum for U. S. art students who are under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted...
...music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under...
Nearest thing in the world to the architecture of ancient Egypt is the clean-sloping, massive 20th-century dam. Nearest thing to Egyptian stone-carving is the work of modern sculptors who feel that if they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian...