Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the ad-rich thickness (12 sections, 5 lbs.) of last Sunday's New York Times, folded between the polite Book Review and the dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...
...everything in Black and White. In this instance, the audience is asked to believe that when most of humanity has been wiped out by a cloud of radioactive sodium, the three people who have managed to save their skins will spend most of their time worrying about the color of them...
Ironically, the reason Noguchi has not shown more often is that he is too busy. Long an architects' favorite, he has been swamped with commissions in recent years, including statues and gardens for Connecticut General's new offices near Hartford, Conn. (TIME color, Sept. 16, 1957) and the highly praised modern Japanese garden for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters. Not all commissions work out as planned. In his present exhibition, Noguchi displays a towering column...
THERE is no substitute for actuality, yet art books can JL do wonders in bringing home to space-bound men impossibly far realms of art. This spring, with the publication of Japan: Ancient Buddhist Paintings, the New York Graphic Society offered U.S. readers 32 color reproductions of masterpieces of Japanese religious art that are rolled up in scrolls, tucked away in mountain monasteries or otherwise unavailable to all but the most determined travelers. Like all too many art books, Japan is expensive ($18), and its text contributes little or nothing to the pictures...
...great human values beneath a clown." Said irreverent Painter Pinot Gallizio, a former professor of chemistry and amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color is brilliant and the shape imaginative. You won't get modern art any cheaper and certainly not any better...