Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point out that people's absorption with a particular art changes often. He speculates that "the modern man is maybe more functional" and so requires the physical presence of painting and architecture. But for many others music is the most compelling art because it is more a human companion than a functional one. He observes further that today both painting and music have become abstract and act as one's continual surroundings, be it material or spiritual. Thus, the question whether music is integral to you "is a question whether you choose to live with music or not--or whether...
Historian's Notes. The drawings tell interesting tales of art history. Correggio's Two Putti and two companion studies furnish proof that he was responsible for conceiving the decoration in an arch in Parma's church of St. John the Evangelist. Two Studies of a Man Suspended by his Leg was Andrea del Sarto's preparation for an unappetizing commission: a painting for public display of some traitors who were to be shown, according to custom, hanging by one leg. One feature of the collection is a number of scenery designs done by Inigo Jones; some...
Married. George Huntington Hartford II, 51, high-spending A. & P. scion, donor of Manhattan's newest art museum; and Diane Brown. 21, willowy Manhattan model, his constant companion; he for the third time; at Melody Farm, the Hartford family fief in Wyckoff. N.J. Caught unaware as the couple hurried off on their honeymoon, Manhattan papers let on that the new Mrs. Hartford was a coal miner's daughter, but after five days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said...
Brezhnev and Tito ignored the outbursts. Looking remarkably robust for his age (70) and his long career in the Communist jungle, Tito made plans to repay the courtesy call with his own trip to Moscow within six months. Probable companion on the return visit: Tito's wife, a stunning, black-haired ex-officer in the partisan army, whose silk gowns and jewels wowed Moscow during a previous visit as impressively as Galina's style distracted Belgrade last week...
...Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. The author supplies a skillfully written companion volume to his excellent popular history The White Nile, tracing the trading and war making along the Nile's shores from the 18th century to the present...