Word: oeil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris, the world's most powerful art magnet, is still pulling young painters and sculptors from all over the world. What do they find when they get there? To spell out the economic facts of life, Paris' art monthly L'Oeil poked into studios and galleries, combed the artists' hangouts for facts and figures. Its findings, published this month, considerably deflate the traditional happy-go-lucky view of la vie en rose...
...such a windfall is still the exception to the rule. "The number of those who give up is enormous," L'Oeil finds. "We have to admit it: the Gauguins have always been the exceptions . . . The cozy apartment, the car, the refrigerator have killed many careers...
...courts where secret tape recordings were made of juries in action as part of a study on how juries arrive at their decisions. The outcry looks like a crusade for the rights of man at first, but on closer scrutiny seems to be nothing more than a trompe d'oeil on the part of those who have made inquisition their specialty, by which they turn the national distaste for wire-tapping to their own account...
...SELECTIVE EYE, edited by Georges and Rosamond Bernier (193pp.; Random House; $7.95), presents material from France's outstanding art magazine L'Oeil (The Eye) and ranges over world art, past and present. The articles are illuminating, the painting, sculpture and photographs are beautifully reproduced...
...Artist Bohrod and his trompe-l'oeil covers: twice now, in the past few months, I have pulled TIME out of my mailbox and gotten a handful of slivers...