Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point of view. This week a large, clear book by Critic Sheldon Cheney* seemed to fill the bill...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
Died. Dr. Elie Faure, 64, French art critic and parlor anarchist, author of what many still consider the world's most authoritative History of Art; in Paris. Dr. Faure turned writer after having been educated as a physician, took twelve years, 1909-21, to publish his History...
Thenceforth he is free to develop his special talents in that line of endeavor which best suits him. Whether he is by natural inclination a sports writer, a feature writer, an interviewer, a humorist, a dramatic critic, or what not, he is certain to find in the CRIMSON a most convenient and profitable outlet for his abilities...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...