Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
...German who, as composers go, led an ascetic, uneventful life and by some freak of nature managed to write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a book described by Critic Lawrence Oilman as "the fairest and most balanced estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among them his hitherto reticent Viennese housekeeper. An expert 'cellist. Author Schauffler gives a sound...
...court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz...
...psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising for one who worked in so early a stage of camera development...
...introduce foreign talent to the U. S., impresarios follow a standard procedure. First comes the New York début, then visits to a few Eastern cities, perhaps to Chicago. If press notices are good, if the artist earns enough to pay expenses, he is considered a success. A long cross-country tour is scheduled for the next year. Last winter the new foreign dancer who impressed New York most was Uday Shankar, who in an aloof, compelling way proved that ancient Hindu dances can be made into exciting theatre (TIME, Jan. 9). In ten weeks he grossed...