Word: artists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sample of Artist Still's "responsible statement...
Special applause for your article on Dr. Bontzolakis [who says that his abstract-artist patients are either poseurs or neurotics-March 9]. Let's hope it will open the eyes of all the snobbish dilettanti who unwittingly promote and support insanity, encouraging those unfortunate ones to stay away from doctors and sanatoriums where they would have a chance to be cured...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...
Goya, when he tumbled for his ducal doxy, was nearing 50, and totally deaf as the result of a mysterious and paralyzing illness; as an artist, he was a respected court painter to Charles IV, but his searing studies of the agonies of war and the misery of the human condition still lay ahead of him. In the movie (filmed in Rome because the Alba family prevailed on Franco to lock the moviemakers out of Spain), "Paco" Goya is a beardless, hot-blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type...
...German wood carver in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1862, young Maybeck made his way to Paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, developed a deep and abiding love for all the great traditional styles. He treated them as a huge treasure-trove, to be dipped into as the artist's imagination dictated. He returned to the U.S. and moved to San Francisco, where he founded the University of California's architectural department...