Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Grey Barnard, 74, U. S. sculptor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. George Barnard learned taxidermy and engraving before he studied sculpture. In Paris, where he all but starved, his critics compared him to Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored...
Barlach's reaction to his environment is vigorous and positive. Unlike the other two, he is essentially a carver and, like his late Gothic German predecessors, is a carver of wood. His peasant men and women are emotional creatures, strangely Slavic in character, clad in roughhewn garments that are subtly expressive of the figures' mood. They have the same subjective intensity that is found in the strange dramas written by the artist...
Reviving the musical atmosphere of medieval society, the Fiedal Trio from Munich will play troubadour and minnesinger pieces on violins fashioned according to the ancient Gothic "fiedels" at a free public concert in Paine Hall on Friday at 8:30 o'clock...
...Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection of the two transepts. Bishop Manning proposes to give the Romanesque choir and sanctuary Gothic vaults, to match the 124-foot vaults of the nave, and to open the nave so as to provide a vista from portal to altar, a distance...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...