Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...
...black and white reproductions-and television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...
Over slivers of goose liver at Horcher's in Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...