Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger lingers though that the board may develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics cleaned up Chicago sewer politics but now threaten to alienate the board whose support he needs...
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians...
HEIFETZ: SAINT-SAENS, SONATA NO. 1 (RCA Victor). As Professor Higgins once observed, Frenchmen don't actually care what they do, only how they pronounce it. And Charles Camille Saint-Saens is nothing if not French. "The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music," he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ' and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other...
...presidential assassination sends a shock wave of horror across a nation. Contemporary artists and writers called upon to depict or describe it all too often resort to maudlin bathos or tight-lipped understatement. Years may pass before it can be viewed with anything like objectivity-and then the initial, highly emotional reaction may fascinate the historian as much as the event. On display in Manhattan's Dintenfass Gallery last week was an exuberantly witty and challengingly mordant display of 52 paintings and collages anatomizing an assassination. Its extraordinary impact derived from the fact that the artist, Elias Friedensohn...
...town planners and structural engineers decided that rather than build anew, they would try to restore the city's historic sections to their original appearance. The job has taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major...