Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news media by people like the Wallaces and other such mongers of hate and prejudice. While, in a democracy, they are entitled to be heard, they have received far more coverage than they deserve. Your article will help to redress this imbalance, I hope, by having presented an excellent portrait of another kind of Southerner and a truly great American...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum former New York Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving, 36, has put his theatrical talents to good use. To get New Yorkers to take a fresh view of the Met's treasures, he displayed some 600 of them, ranging from the silver portrait of a 4th century Sassanian king to Marie Antoinette's doghouse, under the title "In the Presence of Kings." The array drew 62,000 visitors to the museum on a recent Sunday. Last week Hoving demonstrated that showmanship leads to acquisitions...
Back home in Barcelona after his first unsuccessful foray on Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1902 painted a somber, Blue Period portrait of a woman, barefoot, with child in arms and holding a single bright red flower. At Sotheby's auction house last week, Picasso's down-and-out souvenir, Mother and Child by the Sea, brought the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist: $532,000, more than double the previous record, also held by Picasso, whose Death of Harlequin sold...
...promise of scandal, much of funk turned out to be merely cheerfully bizarre. Sue Bitney's Family Portrait, a rainbow-hued collection of triangular, circular and arched abstract forms made of painted wood, stuffed canvas and hairy cloth, looked like a creative child's garden of playthings. Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity...
Unlike most biographical writing, Starting Out in the Thirties is not a chronicle. At the book's end one knows nearly as little about the achievements or accomplishments of Kazin's life in the thirties as one did at the beginning. It is, instead, a portrait of the two communities Kazin lived in--the tenements of Jewish Brownsville and the heady, exciting community of radical writers in Manhattan and Provincetown...