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The projected courts would the be the first such in the Ivy League. Choate, a preparatory school in New York State, has indoor courts, and Yale has two makeshift canvas-covered courts in Payne-Whitney Gym. Harvard's courts would have the same surface as the varsity outdoor courts (standard...
Empty Canvas (which was organizing published under the title La Noia, , naturally, boredom) defines preoccupation as "the on of all relationship with reality". by its hero Dino, a man of with painting, war, his mother, and even his own on boredom, the novel de- a lengthy episode in his search...
AYME'S novel strikes one immediately as an altogether different sort of thesis. The Empty Canvas presented a figure too weary to be consistently ironic, like a Jamesian European sick of looking at the Catskills; The Conscience of Love throws a squat, unprepossessing narrator into a preposterous muddle of satire...
He begins with the somber, subdued tones of the classic Dutch artists. But his study of Rubens' paintings in Antwerp and his overwhelming need to escape the disaster of his personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life...
He studied in Boston, then taught in Manhattan. His own work was at first strongly influenced by Cézanne. Then the Dada revolution and the surrealists came across the Atlantic. In what turned out, as Biographer Ethel Schwabacher shows, to be a search for an expression of his own...