Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eloquent as Ben Shahn has been in the fall Norton lectures, his pictures speak with a bolder and more significant voice. The Fogg Museum has done well to complement the artist's stay here with an excellent exhibition of his work...
...third party has still to be brought around: Israel's David Ben-Gurion, who wants political rewards for surrendering his military gains. Ben-Gurion, from past experience, has a low opinion of Hammarskjold's famed diplomatic technique. In the Israeli view, Hammarskjold thinks that situations can be solved merely by formulating them...
...Artist Ben Shahn, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, did his best to ring the death knell last night on Clive Bell's influential critical cannon that representation is unimportant in painting...
...Ben Shahn, American artist, will deliver his second Charles Eliot Norton Lecture, entitled "The Biography of a Painting," this evening at 8:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. This is the second lecture in a series of three to be given by Shahn. He will give the background of the development of one of his paintings. Reconstructing the process of imagination...
...Obin was concerned with a simple environment and was not very articuate or self conscious about his art. This led Rodman back to the U.S. and Ben Shahn whom he felt in his work answered the questions "How can the popular artist be reconciled with the long history of art? And how can the knowing modernist achieve the primitive's rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell...