Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Healey, Freshman twirler last year, who defeated the Yale Cubs, Don Prouty, and Art Johns are other twirlers who will receive considerable attention...
Thoroughly discredited is the oldtime notion that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is as far out of his reach as the planet Jupiter. Museums own these things, and most museums try to attract people in to see them. Nothing, however, beats a museum for making the average man uncomfortable on Sunday afternoon...
...modeling has recently arisen in the U. S. Whatever its source, this interest constitutes an economic demand. To meet it, there have been at least two ambitious attempts in the past six months to market excellent pictures at extremely low prices. Each was designed to do for the art of museums what radio has done for the art of symphonies-to bring it into U. S. homes. Last week each reached the stage of significant news...
This week appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than...
...only Bruin defensemen there. Dit Clapper was there too. He didn't scrimmage, however, because he is still nursing a recent injury. Instead he just skated around the rink and managed to interfere with play a good deal of the time. Once we couldn't help hearing Art Ross fly off: "Dit, get the hell out of the way." Being the largest Bruin excepting Portland, Dit found this rather difficult...