Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most other human enterprises, has its makers, sellers, buyers and commentators. Prominent living makers of art-Matisse, Picasso, Zuloaga, Augustus John, Rockwell Kent-are known at least by name to multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
...Biltmore. In 1890, with Chicago's World Fair (Columbian Exposition ) still three years off, and popular interest in art largely limited to pyrography, china painting and the confection of Turkish cosy corners, George Washington Vanderbilt, sensitive, shy, 22-year-old grandson of Commodore Cornelius, commissioned the bearded Beaux-Artist Richard Morris Hunt to build for him the finest private house in America. Architect Hunt, who had already sprinkled Newport and Fifth...
...effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...
...writings have "social-revolutionary" leanings), he is looked at some what askance by orthodox Reds because his books are not primarily propaganda. Though many of his friends are Communists he is not a member of any party. Unlike such writers as Upton Sinclair, Dos Passos is more of an artist than an agitator. He was one of the artists, writers arrested in Boston in 1927 for protesting publicly against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson's novel, I Thought of Daisy...
...institutional notion of a theatre (workshops for scenery and costumes had been organized, also a training school for young players) was intruding upon the bigger, finer ideas with which they had begun. Thus vaguely, with idealistic intonation, the sisters have always revealed themselves. Alice, now married to British Artist Herbert Crowley, lives, in Paris. But Irene has carried on in the same lofty spirit. As "the Lewisohn Sisters" she inaugurated the production of "symphonic music with stage and orchestra" for which she has written the scenarios, done the directing.* Out of these experiments grew last week's performances...