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...something was coming out of this one then..." Or if an African mask were adjacent to Gertrude's Cubist-like portrait, or if Leo were expressing his excitement over Cezanne when he had really gone to Italy to study Italian painters: Mantegna for Leo was "a sort of Cezanne precursor with the color running all through...
...with numbing doses of bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk that left him shattered...
...Serge Sabarsky Gallery in New York. For years, Kubin was regarded as a mere footnote to Austrian Expressionism-a man whose chief importance was vicarious, having influenced the young Paul Klee and provided enough indicative puffs of fantasy with his drawings and book illustrations to qualify him as a "precursor" of Surrealism...
...Leningrad Party Chief Sergei Kirov by a Trotskyite dissident. It was that event that set the stage for one of the most terrifying eras of modern history: the Great Purges of the 1930s, or, as Khrushchev calls them, "the meat mincer." The NKVD, Stalin's secret police and precursor of today's KGB, suddenly became all-powerful, and thousands of party officials and army officers began to vanish. Khrushchev survived the grim era in willing ignorance. "I don't know where these people were sent," he says. "I never asked. If you weren't told something...
...tendency has been to treat ancient Egyptian art as merely an impressive precursor to the masterpieces of classical Greece. And with some reason, since Egyptian art was known to most viewers only through those available examples brought home by 19th century plunderers. To the Western eye, attuned to the realistic and lyric drapery of Greek sculpture, most seemed sleekly stylized, looking vaguely like objects suitable for reproduction as paperweights...