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Many of the presidents seemed interested in their own lives. Andrew Johnson owned "The Trial of Andrew Johnson", published by order of the United States Senate. Jefferson Davis is represented by Colonel Craven's "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis...
...proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House, etc. etc.?some of them with faculty members in residence...
Such provocative statements speckle almost every page of Thomas Craven's philosophy of painting which the Book-of-the-Month Club this month offers its lodge members. Lay readers should not be discouraged; if Mr. Craven's conclusions are sometimes questionable his book?useful as a reference work in any library?always holds the attention, stirs the imagination...
...Craven's method is to trace the development of painting by a series of critical and biographical sketches of great painters, applying continually his test for true art: vitality, gusto, a passion to interpret life. It is as good a standard as any other but leads inevitably to the conclusion that lusty Rubens was one of the greatest artists who ever lived; and that patrician Velasquez, who "painted the King's face in precisely the same spirit as his modern kinsman Monet painted haystacks," was little more than an expert technician. The 500 pages of the book are a learned...
...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...