Word: gerli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much power out of his lens as if it were a fire-hose nozzle, deals this time with a deadly game of hide & seek. The fugitive is an ex-bomber pilot (Van Heflin) who once betrayed a group of fellow prisoners to curry favor and food in a Ger man prison camp. Stalking him with a maniacal single-mindedness is Bombardier Robert Ryan, the only survivor...
...Inwardness & Absurdity." On the surface Kierkegaard's life was both short and dull. Born in Copenhagen in 1813, he spent his college years in dilettantism, passed a course of theological studies cum laude, but was never ordained, fell in love but did not dare ger married, used up his inheritance in publishing his books, and died in 1855 at the age of 42-just when his money had run out. But that was Kierkegaard's life on the surface. His real life was a long, exciting, bitter, lonely struggle within himself. The fruit of that' struggle...
Shortly before World War II, Lurçat had decided that to make good tapestries once again, Aubusson (285 miles directly south of Paris) needed a return to the good old days. He managed to interest a few fellow-artists (notably Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and up-&-coming Paris Painter Marcel Gromaire) in making properly simple tapestry designs, hired four Aubusson weavers to work them out in the ancient way. Then came the German occupation. While his weavers labored, Lurçat became a leader in the French underground...
...show, entitled "The Big Top," opened last week. Dealer Samuel M. Kootz borrowed Picasso's pinwheel-shaped Acrobat from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for the occasion, invited six young U.S. abstractionists (Calder, Motherwell, et al.) to paint circus pictures to go with Léger's. The catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese...
...ger appeared to have gained almost as much from Manhattan as U.S. moderns used to get out of Paris. Says he: "Nowhere else have I found such an energetic and dynamic atmosphere. The French public will be amazed when it compares my American painting with my pre-American output. America has added color to my palette...