Word: josef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emotions," says Abstractionist Josef Albers, "are usually prejudices. When peo ple say my paintings have no emotion I say, O.K., precision can make you crazy too. A locomotive is without emotion - so is a mathematics book - but they are exciting...
...recent Sunday, an American reporter and a visiting Italian Communist Senator journeyed to Mikofalva to see how Hungarian Catholics felt about Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, whom the Reds put in jail as a "traitor" (TIME, Jan. 10). The reporter found that Mikofalva's people thought their cardinal a good man. But he also found some exceptions. The strangest of these was Father Endre Molnar. Father Molnar is a Communist...
...manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
...carvings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery this week, across the street from Josef Albers' two shows (see above). Like Albers, Arp chose never to "sully nature" with recognizable subject matter, but there the resemblance ended. While Albers' paintings looked like a number of things, Arp's sculptures looked like nothing at all-which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing...
...Communist battle for control of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary raged last week throughout the country. In schools and homes, factories and offices, Hungarians were asked to sign petitions demanding the death penalty for Josef Cardinal Mindszenty because he had "insulted and damaged" the people's republic (TIME...