Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The dominant characteristic of Polish art has always been its steadfast alliance with Western Europe. This Slavic nation, situated on plainlands, has been invaded from all sides, by Mongols, Cossacks, Tartars, Teutonic Knights and Nazis; yet across the centuries it has remained a stronghold for artistic styles as familiar in...
To celebrate the millennium this year, Chicago's Polish community-the largest outside of Poland-requested and got from the present Communist government an exhibition of 127 historic objects that display the nation's artistic heritage. The exhibition of treasures from Poland, which is currently at Chicago'...
Blumenkranz attributes the rise of artistic anti-Semitism to the Crusades, holy wars in which Jews, as unbelievers, were forbidden to serve. They were clearly set aside from the rest of Christendom, forced to live in ghettos, made to wear special clothing, confined to such shunned occupations as money-lending...
Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures...
MAME is an all-out, smash-bang, pull-out-the-stops musical extravaganza that makes up in show-biz slickness what it lacks in artistic originality. Angela Lansbury turns in a fast-paced performance as Patrick Dennis' high-fashion, high-living aunt. But Jerry Herman's score seems...