Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What has Alfred M. Landon of Kansas in common with Vincent van Gogh . . .?" "What is it that is first bitten and then bathed...
...considerable value and should be highly praised because of the fresh and stimulating way in which they carry on a tradition, the beginnings of which are not far behind us. In the hands of the great majority of contemporary artists, the cubism of Cezanne, the effective grotesqueness of Van Gogh, and the myriad contributions of other men too numerous to mention, have taken on a prosaic and domestic dullness. A tradition, in order to thrive, must be continued in the spirit of its originators. Stevens and Jones, together with others whose paintings are on exhibit, are among those painting today...
...right when you say it is bad taste or no taste at all to like some thing herdwise, witness the recent and almost leprous enthusiasm for the dead van Gogh ... I wish you perfect joy in your illustrious solitudes...
...striking force in window display, in fact, has been imitation of the catchier varieties of modern art. First window designs openly based on an art exhibition were Saks's van Gogh windows in 1935. Since then Bonwit Teller has taken the ball from shrewd Saksman Ring and has had half a dozen tie-ups with Art, notably a Surrealist display in 1936 designed by none other than Salvador Dali. Bonwit's own Display Director Tom Lee has reached a certain summit this autumn with swank and cockeyed Ballet windows. Harlequin windows and "Sweet Surrealism'' windows...
Laureate of the hyperthyroid era was Jack London, socialist and believer in Nordic supremacy, who wrote 50 books in 16 years and lived as strenuously as the he-men he wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid...