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RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. A Russian-born British journalist who was on the spot has compiled the most complete English-language history to date of the titanic struggle with Germany. Though the account sometimes leans too heavily on official Soviet explanations-and jargon-the canvas is...
Museums throughout Germany, announced Bonn's Treasury Ministry, will soon share in long-term loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in...
Hitler's art collection is often plainly preposterous. Sharing the racks with Rubens are sexy sphinxes and snake-draped nude dancers of Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck, whose fancy for the Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary...
The decorative appeal of Louis' and Noland's work, especially for European critics, is not hard to understand. Compared to the beer cans, taxidermic delights, and other hairy intrusions of other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak...
Louis and Noland, often paired because they worked together in Washington, began to gain recognition as the heyday of the abstract expressionists passed. In contrast to the abstract expressionists' frenzy of free-swinging brushstrokes, Morris Louis, who died suddenly two years ago at the age of 50, turned out...