Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What saddened the two victims of the ruling was that they had to pay duty on the paintings not as reproductions of postcards, worth approximately two cents each, but as fashionable paintings, worth from $200 to $2,000 each. What saddened dealers, critics (including the Museum of Modern Art's President Anson Conger Goodyear and Director Alfred H. Barr Jr.) and artists in general was the ruling's implication: that an artist's model rather than his method determines whether his work is original...
Liberal lawyers hold that the law flourishes by truing up ever more wisely with new and unblinkable social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion...
...Harcourt, Brace ($5). *Argyrol was the first silver compound found strong enough to kill gonococci without injuring delicate membranes of eyes, nose, throat, bladder. Many hospitals still use it to protect the eyes of newborn babies against blindness caused by gonorrhea. † Others: The French Primitives & Their Forms, The Art of Henri Matisse, The Art of Renoir...
...Francisco's Museum of Art, 15 paintings went on show last week celebrating the eccentric, Slavic, bucolic conceits of Marc Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...
...Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art proudly displayed its latest acquisition: Dorothy Lamour's sarong, donated by Paramount to "stimulate public interest in the museum as a whole...