Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is...
The early Japanese cards in the collection, called "Karuta", were probably first introduceed into that country by the Portuguese navigators of the Middle Ages. The other Oriental games, including the playing sticks of Korea and the paper discs and dominoes of China, are a distinct species from those of the...
In presenting an exhibition of the sculpture of Allan Clark, the Fogg Museum begins a most laudable policy of showing the work of contemporary artists. In this case the Museum has chosen a young sculptor of marked individuality. His work at once raises questions of aesthetic interest. Should sculpture be...
Mr. Clark belongs to that group of artists who have trained themselves. Born in 1896 at Missonia, Montana, he studied for a short time only at the Chicago Institute. Perhaps it was his technical facility which gave him the assurance to avoid Europe with its classic, or modern traditions, and...
Turning to the pieces of oriental influence, China is responsible for the silver bronze of the lovely "Yang Kuel Zel", the powerful favorite of the most famous of T'ang Emperors. Her body moves in one curve slowly and delicately. Very different is the more varied and violent posture of...