Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look about the same, and are really rather dull. 'In Germany, on the other hand. I can find little examples of mediaeval art in most every town I visit, and there seem to be more interesting things to visit, museums, for example, which are the first objects of every artist's search...
...come now to Homo Americanus. He works for work's sake, like an artist for art's sake. He does not know when to stop and, in fact, never stops at all, so that the result is bound to be stupendous overproduction followed by world depression...
...Painted Pig (Knopf, $2), off the press. For children from five to ten years, The Painted Pig is illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow daughter "who helped me buy a painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with...
...Painted by Artist Eleanor Harris of Manhattan and Aldie...
Abraham Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice...