Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late 19th Century, scientists were so puffed with the importance of their contemporary culture that discussion of prehistoric art remains discovered in Belgium and France, with their implication that a respectable culture had flourished in glacial times, was subtly but systematically suppressed. It was then held that Stone Age culture died when the ice receded northward for the last time. Leo Frobenius did not believe "anything so essentially alive could vanish so completely." He coaxed, cajoled and corn-pelled his elders to back his theory that Stone Age men had taken their chisels and paint brushes down into Africa after...
...largest (24 ft. by 9 ft.) exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art show last week was a watercolor copy of a rock painting from Mtoko Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art...
Herr Doktor Frobenius, a lively, goateed little scholar currently lecturing in the U. S., is not surprised when people are slow to grasp the symbolic complexities of his great collection of "dawn art." "We modern Europeans," says he, "concentrating on the newspaper and on that which happens from one day to the next, have lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches...
...reporters, gave them news that within a year not only the Grand Duchess Marie but any other resident or visitor in Manhattan will be able to see Raphael's Giuliano de'Medici at almost any time. Banker Bache, for a quarter-century one of the most important art collectors in the U. S., was giving his entire collection to the public and turning over his home at No. 814 Fifth Avenue as a museum to house it. Other headliners in the Bache collection...
...Art Map. Fifteen years ago the vast bulk of the Metropolitan Museum, the cluster of dealers along Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, and pre-auction exhibits at the Anderson and American Art Galleries (since combined), were about all the art that a visitor to Manhattan could see. Since then, thanks to public-spirited tycoons, the art map of New York has spread and sprouted richly. Today an art-conscious visitor should not leave Manhattan without a pilgrimage that will cover more than ten miles, take him into some 100 institutions. Among the most important stops...