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Svengalis and Status. All American artists, Wolfe argues, are Trilbys. For the past 30 years they have been hypnotized by three powerful critics named Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg. These Svengalis have dictated what shall be painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because...
DuBois entered the Boylston prize-speaking contest in 1890 "because I needed the money" and came away with second prize. His friend Clement Morgan, also black, won first prize, and DuBois helped organize a small revolt in his class to elect Morgan Class Day speaker, breaking an unwritten rule which had traditionally reserved this distinction for students from fashionable Back...
...slipway has been checked and greased. Brochures prepare us for a new Cunarder, the latest in a steelworking tradition that goes back to such august four-funnelers as the M.V. Picasso. The chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder with which he had been stripping an American dreadnought, the U.S.S. David Smith; he wipes away one gruff tear of pride on an oily rag, then jerks the levers...
...Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
...Marvin Sadik, director of the National Portrait Gallery, thinks not. Sadik argues that the painting was actually by William Winstanley, an English artist who copied, as best he could, one of Stuart's works. In rebuttal, Clement Conger, curator of the White House, claims that the painting is an original Stuart and produces the original bill of sale as proof: "One portrait full length of the late Genl. Washington by Stewart with frame." (No one knows for sure who made out the document - and misspelled Stuart's name.) Conger has neither the money nor the desire to undertake...