Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hung a full size reproduction of one of the mosaics of the great Byzantine church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople. Filling a lunette over the southwest entrance of the church from the vestibule to the narthex, it represents the Virgin and Child with two emperors, one holding a model of the city, the other a model of the church...
Best of the Ganso nudes exhibited last week was the figure of a young model seated by a tea table, a black lace scarf thrown over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist...
...three times a week with Charles Seymour Whitman Jr., son of the ex-Governor of New York. He is a member of both junior honorary societies and like his brother, of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Minor activities include membership in the Christian Association Cabinet, International Relations Club, Liberal Club, Model League of Nations, Model Senate and the Debating Council. Other prizes include a debating prize and a Latin prize...
...matter in the language of William James, the Self is first and foremost a physical self. . . . The more primitive the situation in the biological sense, the more intense and the less variable is the attitude. . . . The origin of attitudes, in a functional sense, then, is always biological. The model upon which they are fashioned is often, though not always, cultural...
Among such tricks was the universal and highly developed practice of copying original styles. By the early Depression years it had gone so far that no exclusive model was sure to remain exclusive for 24 hours; a dress exhibited in the morning at $60 would be duplicated at $25 before sunset and at lower prices later in the week. Sketching services made a business of it; delivery boys were bribed on their way to retailers...