Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mindful of international opinion, the Party is trying to give the crackdown a sugar coat by underlining those sections of Communist ideology which stress that freedom for the artist exists under Party discipline too. A faintly conciliatory tone has appeared in Soviet literary magazines as the Party writers, led by Ilya Ehrenburg, insist that the Soviet writer is just as free as his Western counterpart; in fact, a good deal freer, censorship nowithstanding. Of course, this is Socialist freedom: "The writer is free when he understands the nature of the historical process," comments Alexander Karaganov...
...intellectuals cannot forget Khrushchev's dictum: "The question of whether he is free or not does not exist for any artist who faithfully serves his people..." Official criticism of Pasternak is still bitter, despite adverse world opinion, and the hope of another thaw...
What is missing is much of the necessary battle with structure, fundamental and unromantic, which should be taking place. Shimizu's shimmering drawings are really quite handsome. What will evolve from them, however, is the question in the case of an artist so young. These compromise far too readily with surface effect and fail to establish the foundation Shimizu needs...
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...
...film job was tempting. "So many African pictures are being made these days that this film company wanted to hire a full-time native artist. I was young and romantic and I could see myself with beret and cigar, you know...