Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert E. Winlock '06, New York; Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Curator of Egyptian art, and President of American Association of Museums...
...reason that Edward Steichen retired last week was that all this had not been enough for him. To rigorous lovers of photography as an important art, Steichen's achievement, measured against his gifts and his opportunities, was not quite enough either. When Steichen told old Photographer Alfred Stieglitz that he was getting out of business, the impresario of "An American Place" was so pleased he could scarcely speak...
Once when someone asked him if it were not necessary for a composer to be sincere. Ravel answered: 'I don't particularly care about this 'sincerity.' I try to make art." He had a little story about how he had worked for four years on a certain sonata and had spent three of the four taking out unnecessary notes...
...castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with any of them, although he thought Rubens should have put more clothes on his wife before he painted...
...bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...