Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shame Peggy Guggenheim's collection is going to Venice [Dec. 16]. All modern art should be in America...
Kenny Clarke Plays André Hodeir (the Kenny Clarke Sextet; Epic). A low-keyed collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
Adman Lasker at 64 plunged into the market, convinced that the world of advertising art had all along been drawing its ideas from the prime originators of modern painting. In the next eight years he amassed a spectacular collection ranging from an 1834 Corot to a 1950 Joán Miró. The results, shown by the 60 color plates of The Albert D. Lasker Collection (Simon & Schuster; $20), make one of the handsomest art books of the season...
...country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions in vivid and imaginative detail. Most of the answers are pulled together in a new, smoothly written book for laymen: Abraham: His Heritage and Ours, by Boston Writer Dorothy B. Hill...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...