Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. 99 pages. Harper...
...early, conventional portrait done by Titian around 1525, from Omaha, hangs near his 1565, darkly haunting Ecce Homo, from St. Louis. The contrast between the pair illustrates the degree to which the Venetian evolved his own austere, luminous, intensely personal style that became finer and more influential among succeeding generations...
Died. Margaret Kennedy, 71, British author, who in 1924 scored an international bestseller with The Constant Nymph, a bittersweet portrait of an erratic musician's seven free-spirited children, produced 17 other novels (1964's Not in the Calendar), most of them skillfully told tales with intricate plots; in Adderbury, Oxfordshire...
...written according to his plan by Canadian Poet John Glassco. His work ably mimics Beardsley's writing, giving credence to Glassco's boast that "the prose may be imitated but never the drawings." He is right. The text is less remarkable than the illustrations-among them a portrait of Venus in a startling likeness of Jacqueline Kennedy...
Beauty hath ever some strangeness; the beauty of Adams' work is strangely cold. It has little of the subtle irony or quick warmth of Cartier-Bresson, for instance; it is not man facing himself, but man facing a huge natural universe. The one real portrait in the show, happily, is magnificent. "Dr. Dexter Perkins" exhibits the photographer as more than a master of the flawless snowscape; it is both artistically and emotionally comprehensible and satisfying. Adams' irritating crispness of vision is relieved in "Woman at Screen Door" by the device of shooting through the screen and using it to soften...