Word: baur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen he had almost as much clout. It is axiomatic that in order to be a conservative, the individual has to have something to conserve. Wayne had made more money on horseback than Eddie Arcaro. He had property, a big rep and a new wife, Mexican-born Actress Esperanza Baur. He was Hollywood's super-American, whose unswerving motto was "Go West and turn right...
...impresario will be lanky, Connecticut-born and Yale-educated John Ireland Howe Baur, 58, the museum's associate director and the man who was in charge of getting the new Whitney Museum built. Baur plans to continue the museum's open-minded policies, expanding them in order to ensure broader representation of artists from outside New York City. "There's a bubbling over of creative energy in every direction today," he says, "and the injection of new talent and new movements gets more frenetic all the time. However, new movements tend to overshadow artists doing good work...
...Sciences at the University of Kansas will open in Lawrence this month. It will handle 450 freshmen, who will share classes, housing and dormitory advisers. All freshmen are expected to be in such a college next year, all sophomores and freshmen a year later. Kansas Sociologist E. Jackson Baur hopes it will help K.U. students to avoid falling into the type he sees at most universities: "A collection of com peting strangers who are incapable of collaborating with one another in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...
...paintings cover his development from his sharply focused early realism to the sun-swatched impressionism of his later work. He was, in fact, perhaps the first American to be attracted by the impressionists' vision. But he was never an imitator of his great French contemporaries. Critic John Baur notes that he was always torn between his loyalty to line and solid form and his wish to achieve the effect that the impressionists got by dissolving line and form in color and atmosphere. Robinson never solved the dilemma, but this failure may have been all to the good. What Robinson...