Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense it is misleading to speak of a Chicago School, for many of the better artists in the show-including Leon Golub, H.C. Westermann and James Nutt-left the Midwest years ago. "Chicago has long been a wholesale supplier of talent to New York," writes Art Critic Franz Schulze, in a briskly readable introduction to the group, entitled "Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945." He continues...
...funk. But all its drive is imagistic, rather than formal: the debate between form and content, a dead issue for years in Manhattan, still goes on in Chicago. Leon Golub, 49, who is in some ways a father figure to Chicago artists, is entirely preoccupied with the human body. His male nudes, gigantic as marble warriors from a ruined Hellenistic pediment, are quite unclassical despite their constant references to antiquity. The surfaces of trunk and limb are gouged, broken and battered: the act of painting the human image becomes an assault. Rhetorical defects plague his work. But its aim-which...
...licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...
Although my camera and photo equipment have not been found yet. I would like to record publicy my thanks and appreciation for the alertness, prompt action, and the subsequent sympathetic help of the Harvard Police (especially the arresting officers, Mr. Francis Wigfall and Mr. Leon Brathwaite) and their colleagues at Cambridge Police headquarters. Hooshang Aslam
...admitted on their husbands' credentials alone: all the other women distinguished themselves by their ideas and actions--in the arts, in the sciences, in religion and reform, in business and philanthropy. The biographers are noted scholars themselves--Anne Firor Scott on Jane Addams, Allan Nevins on Jessie Benton Fremont, Leon Edel on Willa Cather and Alice James...