Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The success of the Peterson guides lies in their difference from earlier bird books, which were primarily artistic (like Audubon's) or coldly scientific treatises on dead specimens in museums. Peterson, a sometime art student and teacher, got the idea (from Ernest Thompson Seton's Two Little Savages...
"I'm Flattered." Johnson is a backslapper, a shoulder hugger, a knee squeezer. "I like to press the flesh," he says, "and look a man in the eye." He is also a necktie fixer (he once lined up all the men in his office staff, carefully straightened their ties...
Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre: "Our age is in the act of destroying its artistic patrimony. Modern restorers of the Anglo-Saxon school are inspired by the taste for modern painting. They want old masters to shine like contemporary art, which stresses contrasting tones. Old painting was concerned...
Carlo Barbieri, art critic for Naples' // Mattino: "Italy's artistic patrimony has been saved by the work of restorers, especially in the removal of frescoes from damp and crumbling walls and the transferring of paintings to new canvases."
Sir: Although I have admired Henry Koerner's TIME covers, I was disappointed in his paintings. Ugliness is never beautiful. Nor should - Whose own painting has been reproduced in color in TIME (May 28, 1951, and Dec. 8, 1952). content ("the basic human condition, especially in America") ever be...