Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair's exhaustive study of the art of propaganda has at length caused him to turn the medal over, and examine the propaganda of art. In his newest book, "Mammonart," he champions the thesis that since the dawn of human history, the path of success for a writer or artist has been through the glorification of the ruling classes, and through teaching their subjects and slaves to stand in awe of them. With magisterial rod in hand, Mr. Sinclair proceeds to classify as evil all those writers who consciously or unconsciously voice the propaganda of the ruling classes...
...millenium, but it should be done without questioning the sincerity of the writers. Interest in the lower classes, "the cult of the poor," did not begin until the eighteenth century. Before that time proletarian milleniums were unheard of, and unimagined. Mr. Sinclair would have one believe that "when an artist embodies his emotions in an art form, he does so because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change the emotions of other people. But emotions, unlike opinions, such as Mr. Sinclair's, are products of gradual evolution and are the common heritage...
Last week, Death came to Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist. He succumbed to a heart attack while sitting at breakfast in his Manhattan studio...
Willard Metcalf, 66, was born in Lowell, Mass., apprenticed when 17 to a wood-engraver, later to one George L. Brown, landscape artist of South Boston, in whose service he got up at six o'clock, walked ten miles to work, swept out the studio, built the fire. Saving his pennies, he got together enough to go to Paris where, it is said, he lived on "three cents a day" studying under Boulanger and Lefebvre. Occasionally he sold a picture. In 1888, one of his paintings was hung in the Salon. Tired of his poverty, he left Paris, became...
Died. Willard L. Metcalf, 66, artist; in Manhattan, of heart disease...