Word: hogarth
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...RAKES PROGRESS, with its Stravinsky score, its W. H. Auden-Chester Kallman libretto, and its ultimate genesis in Hogarth, is one of the most interesting artistic ventures of the century. Tom Rakewell is portrayed as an innocent, even likeable young man, who is led astray by the conniving servant, Nick Shadow, and robbed of his riches and his innocence. After Rakewell has scorned his true love and taken up with the bearded lady, Shadow reveals himself as a diabolical agent, and plays Tom a card game, with Rakewell's soul as the stakes. Although Tom wins at this operatic Seventh...
Died. Leonard Woolf, 88, author, editor and husband of Novelist Virginia Woolf; of a stroke; in Rodmell, England. His Hogarth Press published not only his wife's novels but also poetry of T. S. Eliot, Freud's Collected Papers, and works of E. M. Forster and Robert Graves. Woolf's five-part autobiography (last volume to be published this fall) is considered a monument to a generation reared in peace, stunned by World War I and the great Depression, yet remaining optimistic that a new age of reason would dawn. In one anecdote, he recalls...
...lion of prides. The mane is wayward and unhatted. The massive head and frame are by Hogarth, the voluminous suit by Khrushchev's tailor. An excess of ergs twitches his head and fingers; the English hair and teeth, the cockney-of-the-walk intonations announce his presence in the densest lobby crush. In the past two years, the New York Times's Clive Barnes has become a public character, the most theatrical and prolific critic since the days of Alexander Woollcott...
...liquor, vomit and urine. Her mother did the cooking there and never had time for reading bedtime stories. That is how Sculptress June Leaf, 39, chooses to remember her childhood on Chicago's West Side. With such a past, it is not surprising that her artistic heroes are Hogarth, Klee and Ensor, or that she has learned, from the hippies she says, "to see the kaleidoscopic side of life and the mind...
...Kudos to Caricaturist David Levine for his truly memorable cover drawing of L.B.J. as a beleaguered Lear. Artist Levine is a worthy successor to Hogarth, Tenniel, Nast and Low-those forceful masters of effective caricature...