Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German resurgence is coming to a peak in the U.S. this fall. In Manhattan this week the Museum of Modern Art will open the largest German modern art show to be seen in the U.S. in more than 25 years-178 paintings, sculptures and prints. Next week Boston's Museum of Fine Arts will open its "European Masters of Our Time" exhibition, including 44 works by modern Germans. Three handsome and scholarly monographs on German 20th century art are now rolling off the presses.* Significantly, the artists most praised today are without exception the ones banned or exiled...
Strong & Harsh. In the rubble Hitler left, only the hardiest roots of modern art managed to survive. Of the younger generation, the strongest figures combine something of the expressive color of Nolde with the abstract structure handed down by Kandinsky. A leading example is the whiplike abstraction and sweeping, calligraphic symbol of Hans Hartung (TIME, April 1), a German who fought against the Nazis in the French Foreign Legion and is now a French citizen...
...Film Festival for his first picture, Windfall in Athens (1953). His Stella (1955) was a box-office smash in Europe. A Girl in Black, quite aside from its merits and demerits as art and entertainment, should give U.S. audiences some sharp new impressions of what life is like in modern Greece...
...fact seems to be that in its social structure, Greece is none too modern. A Girl in Black is an Ibsenic study of what 19th century Europeans called "the woman question," and from the screen it breathes the musty atmosphere of a long-shut closet-the mid-Victorian kind with a skeleton in it. The main point Director Cacoyannis makes is that "respectable people" in Greece are still locked in the closet of 19th century manners and morals, and he seems to think it high time they broke...
...cause no small furor in the ranks of British industry and labor, as they try to suppress the invention, the first fearful of depleting the business, the second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles of joy and perplexity he manages to put each scene across with convulsing hilarity...