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Word: artiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never heard of it. Before the day was out Pollster Kadlec had talked to a dozen other people. She was careful to avoid anyone in a hurry or anyone carrying packages. Among her choices: a 70-year-old attorney (who asked to be interviewed), a Negro carpenter, a woman artist (who did not think a meeting of Truman and Stalin would do any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Mexico's active volcanoes was in eruption again: 61-year-old Diego Rivera. Mexican women, he rumbled in public and private, dress too much like U.S. women. Not that Artist Rivera had anything against American womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fashion Notes | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...rebozo]has been created by people for people. The Mexican women who do not wear it do not belong to the people, but are mentally and emotionally dependent on a foreign class to which they wish to belong, i.e., the great American and French bureaucracy." His wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, said he, has worn nothing but Mexican clothes for 22 years, and when she went to Paris in 1939, Madame Elsa Schiaparelli was so impressed that she designed a "robe Madame Rivera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fashion Notes | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

There are two schools of writing, this shaggy-browed poet tells the class; inspiration and craftsmanship; he then proceeds to debunk the notion, ("a hangover from romanticism") that all writing is the produce of the divine word alone. The artist must create from within, the says, but it can't be done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Ciardi: Poetry, Prose, and PCA | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

...understand itself . . . Shaw is as difficult as Joyce, Mann as Kafka, if you really look into them. The difficulties arise . . . partly because of the conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more . . . almost the whole job of culture has been dumped into the artist's hands . . . The burden of criticism in our time is ... to make bridges between the society and the arts: to prepare the audience for its art and to prepare the arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Critics in Baltimore | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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