Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artist himself-there is no obvious reason why his work should end up exactly at seventy-five thousand words-and it is undoubtedly a hardship if the publisher holds out a standardized novel which everyone must imitate. Certainly this provides no stimulus for individual experimentation or for the development of new literary forms. But again, one must remember that experiments may prove costly to the publisher, and that the standardizing of sizes inevitably results in cheaper production and probably works to the public good. How these conflicting interests may be reconciled is not at once apparent...
...portrait of President Eliot presented to Harvard by students of all he departments of the University to commemorate his ninetieth birthday last week, is the work of Dr. Eliot's nephew, Mr. C. S. Hopkinson '91, of Cambridge, perhaps the best known living artist who is a graduate of Harvard...
...artist) humbly accepts one of the poet's discarded mistresses until, having fallen in love with her, he suddenly discovers that the poet has done more than dally with complexes. Meanwhile the poet is gushing amours to the artist's sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...
...present exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan, of the work of the 17-year-old Pamela Bianco is surprising in the mature quality shown in her work. Here is no infant prodigy, but an artist who must be judged by mature standards...
...first group of etchings contains the masterly "Raising of Lazarus" and the very famous "Hundred Guilder Print", representing Christ healing the sick. Among the landscapes on exhibition are "Three Trees", the "Cottage and Dutch Bay-barn", and the "Gold-weigher's Field", Portraits fo the artist himself, his mother, and the men of his time--Sutma, Sylvius, and his friend, the Burgomaster Six, are also included...