Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sworn affidavit filed as part of his fight against an Internal Revenue Service bill for $40,000 in back taxes, he said that the "C.J. Fox" paintings he has sold since the 1940s were actually painted by others. From 1972 to 1974 alone, admitted Fox, an obscure Manhattan artist named Irving Resnikoff, 81, turned out 139 "Foxes"-all from photographs of the subjects-for a fee of $250 to $300 apiece. By his own admission, Fox could not have done the portraits if he tried: he cannot paint...
...pulled off his illusory act with remarkable ease. As part of his sales pitch, he circulated a brochure describing the imaginary Fox as the son of a well-known Austrian artist whose "guidance and expert tutelage was [the son's] inspiration." Fox portraits were always done from photographs, and sold as such. After a few well-placed sales, Fox's reputation spread by word of mouth. Said he: "I learned a way of being a good salesman. I don't steal from the poor." He even won some high praise. Ethel Kennedy wrote to say that...
...celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...
Crimson: You have been said to be very isolationist regarding the artist's relation to politics--that is, denying any common meeting ground between art and politics...
Ionesco: Yes--and yes and no. That's to say, art allows you everything. Art can exist outside the immediate contingencies. The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. Right now, there is a series of articles in Le Monde where they say that art and culture are the expression of argument and revolt....But all this doesn't matter. Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going...