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Word: artiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several schools of theory ensconced in this opinion; one of them centers in Moscow. I do not share this opinion. As long as a work of art is not conscious propaganda, its criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar as it contributes to the aesthetic value. "Forever Amber" and "Shore Leave" can and should be condemned only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aesthetics: Brass Knucks | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

Actress Joyce Mathews, 27, who divorced Comedian Milton Berle, 40, two years ago, even though she rated him as "a swell person and a great artist," was rumored thinking of remarrying him. "Why don't you ask Milton?" said she to a nosy newsman. Said Milton: "Well, now, suppose I say maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Satirist Lewis has an artist's eye, has long liked to think of himself as more of an artist than a writer. Last week, to Lewis' unconcealed satisfaction, London's Redfern Gallery was staging a full-dress retrospective show of his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: White Fire | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Gump's sharp break with its incensescented past was decreed by Richard Benjamin Gump, 43, an artist-entrepreneur who took over as president in March 1947. This year he has boosted business 10% over 1948 (when the net profit was $160,000 on a gross of $2,600,000). To Dick Gump the change was part of a crusade against "that awful, stuffed-shirt attitude about art which scares the people and keeps the merchandise on your shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Gump's Goes Modern | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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