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More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...
...Continental novel will be discussed by Renato Poggioli, associate professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, will talk on the American novel...
...cantaloupes.'" So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist magazine, Rinascita, which has caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles it can be an incitement and spur only if it is really...
...result of a lark, the children and their tutor find themselves lost in the mountains, penniless and hungry. They stumble through the parched and worn country; they are chased out of the estate of a decrepit Fascist nobleman; and they are finally held captive by an anti-Fascist fugitive, Renato Spinelli, who fears that they would unwittingly betray him if he let them go. The haggard Spinelli plans a heroic public death for himself, since he knows that he cannot escape. But Frances falls in love with him and persuades him to try to escape with her, only to involve...
...British poet, who is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, will share tonight's panel with Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, and Renato Poggioli, Associate professor of Comparative Literature, who is American editor of the Italian quarterly, "Inventario." The Dunster House Forum will sponsor the discussion...