Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designs came easily in paper, they began working in wood and stone, did creditable sculpture, designed "machines" of fantastic shape but of no practical use, studied patterns of light and motion in classes in photography. Creating new forms was easiest for young high-school graduates, hardest for students with art school training. With no grades given at the New Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy last week expressed himself as highly satisfied, dropped only...
World affairs lately have made bad news to most people, but they have proved a godsend to the art of David Low. By far the best British cartoonist, Low has been drawing brilliant political cartoons for 36 of his 47 years, but never before have events so played into his dexterous hands, given him a cast of characters so suited to his talents, created so many situations to outrage his liberalist sensibilities, or presented him with so much international double-dealing, blundering and inhumanity to whet the anger that guides...
...many reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...into the picture of an educational institution," Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand, who two months ago told Harvard students How to Be Intelligent Though Educated (TIME, May 16), was forbidden by University of Colorado's President George Norlin to deliver a scheduled lecture on "Art and the Workers" at the University's summer school. Snapped Lecturer Rand: "I think it is, in poor taste for President Norlin to use me for publicity purposes for himself. He should hire his own press agent...
...autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came up, not one governor present moved for renewal...