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Campalans is the invention of a Spanish writer and critic named Max Aub, 58, who five years ago became disgusted with novels ("all tired") and biographies ("all false"), decided to invent a new form combining the two. In the process Aub painstakingly wove one of the most ingenious art hoaxes of recent years...
...Aub decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
...until 1955, while Aub was on a lecture tour in Mexico, did he "meet" J.T.C. By then, the painter, as Aub tells it, was a wizened, forgotten genius, the "missing link" of modern art, living like a peasant and "crossbreeding" with Indian maidens. Shunting aside his own work, Aub became so caught up with his invention that he devotedly contributed his talents to "resurrecting the reputation of Campalans." He composed a scholarly biography, right down to footnotes that have footnotes. For pictures of his subject's peasant parents, Aub used a pair of appropriate Spanish postcards. To document J.T.C...
...Joseph C. Aub '11, professor of Research Medicine, was chosen as this years winner of the Bertner Foundation Award for his contributions in the field of cancer research, it was learned last night...
...award will be presented to Aub Friday by the University of Texas during the annual symposium on cancer research in Houston. Aub will deliver the Bertner lecture on the subject of "Cancer Research Is Growing Up" at the meeting...