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Most discussed young painter of 1959 is Barcelona's Antoni Tàpies, who won the top prize at last year's Carnegie International (TIME, Dec. 15). To see what the shouting is about, Manhattanites last week were flocking to a Tàpies exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. A few of those who came to praise remained to scoff, and vice versa, for Tàpies does not fit the abstract-expressionist fashion. Though fiercely independent, his art is more cool than hot, more gloomy than exuberant and more calm than wild...
Mies put his principles into classic but temporary form at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition with his German Pavilion, a building that proved to be one of the most influential structures of modern times. But for a long time Mies found no time or opportunity to build a permanent museum. His opportunity came when Nina Cullinan, daughter of Texas Oilman Joseph Stephen Cullinan, offered the Houston Museum of Fine Arts $625,000 to build a new wing...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona chair...
...psychotherapy that for a quarter-century it made no mark in the English-speaking world. The most eminent Freudians in Britain today still haughtily deny that they ever heard of it-a pose difficult to maintain in view of the fact that the International Congress of Psychotherapy at Barcelona in September was centered on existential analysis. At this meeting Dr. May explained why its influence in the U.S. has so far been negligible. A pragmatic tradition tracing back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious of theorizing or abstract speculation. But just beneath...
...Search for Himself, published in 1953. Already applying existential principles in his practice, he then learned what European analysts were doing, began working on Existence. Meanwhile, the confluence of German and Swiss Daseinsanalyse with a more literally existential school developed in Spain, France and Vienna led to the omnibus Barcelona Congress...