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Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Marbles | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

"Mediocrity Magnified." CinemaScope will abolish, at one stroke, the art of the film as it has been practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Marbles | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Optical Illusion. In Milwaukee, Thomas Buchanan, 26, protesting in vain when police rushed him to the hospital after a tavern brawl, finally got his point across: the eye he had lost in the fight was made of glass.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Matta best explains himself with paint on canvas, and it is obvious that what he has to say in his new show is richer and happier than previously. His ceiling-high canvas opposite displays a peacock softness and brilliance of color and a range of textures from cactus to satin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mysteries of the Morning | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Most abstractionists either shuffle geometrical figures or splash about hoping for happy accidents. Matta does neither. In a sense he is enlarging the bounds of abstract art by painting representationally. He pays as much attention to the representation of space and atmosphere, of light, shadow and shape, as the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mysteries of the Morning | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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