Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mondrian in Motion. Calder made his restless, looping pencil line draw in wire, caricaturing his audience, sometimes with barbs. The toast of Paris, Josephine Baker, was his first metal portrait in 1926; her belly button turned into a shimmying, shaking brass spiral. All that was delightful, a gadgeteer's daydream, until one day Calder visited Mondrian's studio...
Conservative politicians gleefully roasted the novel. Former Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle sniffed that Snow's fictional Prime Minister was "pretty incredible." Frontbencher Iain Macleod said that "as a portrait of Tory politics half a dozen years ago, it is charmingly square." Quintin Hogg mused. "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" Literary critics were kinder, except for Cambridge Don F. R. Leavis, whose 1962 onslaught on Snow as "portentously ignorant" remains a bloody monument in the history of British literary warfare. Leavis acidly remarked: "Snow is in his heaven, the House of Lords." Snow urbanely shrugged off the critics...
Relentlessly probing his own consciousness, he tries to fulfill his vow to give his fellow men a picture of their fate. Beckmann's numerous self-portraits testify to his preoccupation with defining his identity, allowing us to share in these moments of self-confrontation. He began to draw himself at an early age--his 1898 "Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles" is an idyllic scene of the fourteen-year-old Beckmann, facing sideways, blowing soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces...
...most surprising self-portrait in the show is Beckmann's depiction of himself at twenty-three as the young aesthete. Standing before a window overlooking Florence, his pose is archly self-critical. The effeminate position of the hand, the soft, glistening, sensual mouth and the almost humorous defiance and cynicism of the worldly young man, set the stage of his subsequent quest for what he perceptively refers to as "male mysticism...
Actually, there is little analysis in Hugh Sidey's John F. Kennedy, President, but it remains the best reportorial account of Kennedy's Presidency. Sidey wrote the book as a portrait of Kennedy's first two years in office, ending it with the 1962 Congressional elections. After the assassination he dashed off a last chapter on "The Last Year...