Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a director of both papers last summer, Robin Cruikshank began an idle perusal of the 1846 file of the Daily News, intending to write a centenary leader for last week. He soon became convinced that 1846, the paper's first year, was, for England, as Bernard DeVoto had found it to be for the U.S., a "Year of Decision." The article grew into a forthcoming book (Roaring Century...
...most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
...DeVoto's thesis is that U.S. art was all right so long as it concentrated on illustrating "the native life." Recently rediscovered genre and landscape painters like William Mount, George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Cole were fine, DeVoto thinks. But after the Civil War, he argues, a new class of industrial millionaires took to raiding European art and completely ruined the U.S. taste for esthetic home cooking...
...DeVoto thinks the big corporations have taken over from the millionaires and museums to make home-grown art possible. To prove it, Portrait of America has six paintings from the Pepsi-Cola contest, ads for Kaywoodie pipes (each with a pipe smoker) and the U.S. Brewers' Foundation (in which brown bottles appear). But to labor DeVoto's thesis, Portrait has to omit the best examples of art in advertising: the Container Corp. of America's series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant...
Last year Lewis engaged in a verbal slugging match with Harvard's crotchety critic Bernard DeVoto, who (in The Literary Fallacy) had attacked Lewis and other writers of the '205, had urged that the epithet "fool" be introduced into the vocabulary of literary criticism. "Fool," cried Novelist Lewis...