Word: fellowman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense that an individual conceived it and executed it by hand. Moreover, he did it for a purpose-to make the viewer look, and feel, and think. The artist may speak from underground, but he retains, in an elliptical way, his traditional role. It is to make his fellowman more aware, not only of his anxiety but also of the beauty that lurks at his fingertips, in the materials of everyday existence...
...exhibition is Karsh's gallery of greatness-portraits of the 74 statesmen, artists, poets, scientists and philosophers, from the legions he has photographed, whom Karsh considers most qualified by their "concern and love for fellowman." He winnowed the number from his own wider selection of 96 world leaders in his best-selling (41,000 copies at $17.50) Portraits of Greatness, which was published last winter. Sir Winston Churchill alone still appears twice-in the celebrated 1942 defiant portrait that Karsh achieved by audaciously snitching the grumpy Churchill's cigar from his mouth, and in a 1955 elder statesman...