Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fisher was graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in art history in 1926, and then studied architecture at the Graduate School of Design for three years. After more than 30 years of work as a city planner, teacher and researcher, Fisher returned to Cambridge...
John Updike, happily, has gotten out in time. For 20 years Updike and his mellifluous prose have wandered through suburbia, exploring the desiccated guilt and lust of the well-off with a familiar eye. Updike, to be sure, became master of the art, rivalled only by John Cheever, but his recent novels had lost their fire--less compelling, almost tedious, they droned on, as if to say You have read my life so many times before, what more can I say? The painful autobiographical power of Couples petered out to a sense of dry boredom in A Month of Sundays...
...artist whose specialty also was still life, Nicholson grew up in a visually literate milieu. Because it was English, it was conservative. Ben's first real contact with modern art did not occur until the 1920s, when he saw a Picasso in Paris. "It was what seemed to me then completely abstract," he recalled later, "and in the center there was an absolutely miraculous green-very deep, very potent and very real...
...dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland or lichen to a rock, has the reality of paper as well as the metaphoric function of paint. The work is seldom fully abstract however. The predilection for landscape that runs through English art surfaced again in Nicholson soon after 1939, when he went to live in Cornwall. The mild light of the peninsula, sometimes as crystalline as the Aegean, and its rolling, antique contours of moorland and coast, recur in hundreds of drawings and dozens of still-life and land scape paintings. Nicholson...
...work fascinated his countrymen from around 1905 to his death in 1962. They ranked him with Thomas Mann. In 1946 Hesse won the Nobel Prize, principally for The Glass Bead Game. Despite what one critic called "his self-indulgent solipsism raised to a more or less fine art," his meditations obviously found a strong resonance with the preoccupations and diseases of his century...