Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoroughly discredited is the oldtime notion that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is...
Viennese. Since last August the Phaidon Press of Vienna has distributed through the Oxford University Press in New York and through Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in London eight volumes of reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality...
This week appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than...
Last week the board-three B. A. C. men headed by Miller C. Foster of the Department of Commerce, and Montana Aeronautics Commissioner Fred B. Sheriff -issued a preliminary report. Northwest's veteran pilot, Nick Mamer, was completely exonerated. Helpless at the controls after part of the tail structure...
But the fact that finance companies have no trouble in making collections, thinks Mr. Merriam, has nothing to do with the economic justification of installment selling. "Finance companies are liquid, and this is a source of satisfaction to themselves and to their banks,* but it can be little consolation to...