Word: demuth
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...Renaissance, and it wouldn't change until the late '50s, when Abstract Expressionism began to be elevated into the Triumph of American Painting. Earlier 20th century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else). Names like John Marin, Marsden Hartley or Charles Demuth still mean nothing in Europe, and until quite recently the proposal that Stuart Davis was as fine a painter as Jackson Pollock would have struck most cognoscenti as barmy, even heretical...
...Conservatives decried Modernism as un-American, an imported madness, and connected it to the paranoia many Americans felt at the rapid change of their society under the pressure of immigration--"Ellis Island art." But early American Modernists were concerned, sometimes obsessed, with rendering peculiarly American experience. Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was fascinated by the blaring contrasts of signs and numbers on the new urban surface; John Marin (1870-1953) believed that "you cannot create a work of art unless the things you behold respond to something within you...Thus the whole city is alive." Of course, the greatest Modernist work...
...recorded 10 saves before being replaced by senior Kawika Chetron and freshman Art Chen, each of whom had impressive five-minute stints. The spectators were also treated to a spectacular coast-to-coast score by senior Jon Lopez and the first goal of the season by classmate Doug DeMuth...
...between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist Charles Demuth enter from the left, and the gloved, ermine-cuffed hand of the preposterous New York dandy Baron de Meyer appears on the right...
...executive-search firm Korn/Ferry in Washington, says his office is getting "tons of calls. People want to be prepared," he says. "No one wants to be the last one out of the chute." Think tanks are hanging out NO VACANCY signs. "We just laid off five people," says Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute. Although Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp is said to be guaranteed a job with the conservative Heritage Foundation, it claims there is no more room at that traditionally Republican...