Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, maybe your artist is a "good" Baptist. In that case it is excusable, otherwise, probably he will be delighted to tell me about the magic, ephemeral omnipotence...
Eminent U. S. Sephardim include the late Emma Lazarus (poetess), Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen (physician, teacher), Ernest Clifford Peixotto (artist, writer), Jessica Blanche Peixotto (his sister, social economist), Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (jurist...
...Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold...
...live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees from Manhattan's "arty" and despoiled Greenwich Village, including one of the most touted figures in contemporary painting- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum which is by no means...
However inane they may be, the youthful scrawls of a famed artist can usually be sold for big prices. Sincere artists usually object to this mercenary process. Recently Pablo Picasso was astonished to observe on the walls of Paris dealers some 400 of his works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim...