Word: kirstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
Under direction of Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the course centers around seminars and classes conducted by Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations; John Dunlop, associate professor of Economics; and others. Included are numerous luncheon and dinner meetings, at which prominent labor and management leaders speak. Each Fellow also submits an extended report on a problem of union policy, on which he has done research while in the course...
...samples of Nazi art which ap peared this week in the October Magazine of Art were brought to the U.S. by a re turned G.I., Lincoln Kirstein, balletomane son of the late board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store. Along with the stuff that was just what Hitler ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger...
Hitler tolerated no such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...
...spirit of the show is well summed up in Kirstein's catalogue introduction: "The best American battle paintings have been modest. They are filled with the quiet, well observed reporting of the conscientious correspondent, whose notebooks reflect the words of Walt Whitman's great inscription-I was the man, I suffered, I was there...