Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries vibrated last week with things more colorful, more detailed, more precise and concentrated than their images would normally form in the human eye. Painter Audrey Duller Parsons, 33, had divided her second one-man show about equally between animate and inanimate objects, all of which seemed to have struck her with equal intensity. There was a broken statue with a clutter of dead fish, an antique sugar shepherdess, a dead duck. All these were painted with luscious tactile surfaces, every detail as important as every other...
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S HENCHMAN- Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of the excesses of the Terror. The serious reader, if undeterred by the frenetic prose, may pick his way through this maze of personalities to an elaborate but convincing expose of the technique of counterrevolution...
...salty talk, looking at his brawny arms and deep-tanned, seamy face, most observers would conclude that here was a man who, if he painted at all, would do something like the Rivera murals of Industry downstairs in the Institute's main court - hard, realistic, packed with sharp detail, maplike in their bright, crowded colors (TIME. April 3, 1933). But Painter Carroll's frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed the same figures wan and drooping...
...Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the U. S.'s territory. His public service over, he was glad to get back to his books and his beloved Monticello. In 1819 he laid out the University of Virginia almost single-handed and down to its last architectural and administrative detail, served as its first Rector. Bad times wasted his patrimony away, but he died without knowing that Monticello would have to be sold. His last years were enlivened by a correspondence with John Adams, a friend of long standing with whom he had quarreled over politics and with whom he was pleased...
KHYBER CARAVAN-Gordon Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Adventures in India by a sophisticated professional with an eye for detail...