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Carter planned to fly with Rosalynn and Amy to Vienna on Thursday. He will relax at U.S. Ambassador Milton Wolfs elegant white villa during much of the following day, then pay a courtesy call with Brezhnev on Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschläger...
DIED. Richard Lindner, 76, German-born painter whose brassy, cartoon-like and often sinister depictions of women had the bite of Brecht and the machine-like surface of Léger; in Manhattan. Lindner, a Jew, escaped the Nazis by fleeing to France and then to the U.S., where he worked as an illustrator until his own work became successful in the 1960s. His favorite subject-woman-he saw as "bursting her corsets like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting...
Calder's activity straddled two continents; he kept studios in France and the U.S., and was one of the first American-born artists to be accepted as a charter member by the European avantgarde. Still, as his good friend Fernand Léger once put it, Calder was "a hundred percent American." His heritage was also art. His Scottish-born grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, came to the U.S. at 22, later sculpted the famous 37-ft. statue of William Penn that stands atop Philadelphia's city hall. Father Alexander Stirling Calder sculpted the classic George Washington statue...
...Caravaggio or Chardin. Despite a few contemporary intrusions (newspaper headlines, printed tickets, linoleum), the subjects of cubism were classical, traditional. They ignored the technology, whose scale, speed, ingenuity and arrogant newness so captivated poets like Guillaume Apollinaire, Filippo Marinetti and Blaise Cendrars, or painters like Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia -and Delaunay. The machine culture extolled by these early modernists of the Belle Epoque is our own archaeology, but we cannot revive the mixture of innocent awe and millenarian hope with which they confronted it. Like the faith that raised Chartres, that has gone...
Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay...