Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Diego Rivera, Gaston Lachaise somewhat resembles the figures he produces. Even more akin to them is full-bosomed Mme Lachaise who, although she has seldom posed for her husband, has been the inspiration for most of his amply proportioned torsos. Son of a Paris cabinet maker, Gaston Lachaise was an indifferent student at the Beaux Arts. When the woman who was to be his wife left for her native U. S., he followed her, earning passage money by carving figurines for Glassmaker René Lalique. He worked ten years in the U. S. before he thought he had enough money...
Thomas Craven, 45, is a red-haired Kansan capable of tornadoes of indignation on the subject of art. When he published Men of Art the entire U. S. art world paid respectful attention to his caustic evaluation of painters from Giotto to Rivera (TIME, April 27, 1931). Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard...
...future of his adopted country. A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFING-H. A. Overstreet-Norton ($2). Hints on how to occupy the New Leisure, by a bright writer. NINE ETCHED FROM LIFE-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3). Short biographies of Briand, Lloyd George, Stalin, Mussolini et al. PORTRAIT OF AMERICA-Diego Rivera- Covici, Friede ($3.50). Examples of Muralist Rivera's work, with introduction by himself, explanatory text...
...jury shows which in art-conscious Paris used sometimes to approach the pinnacle of Paris success-a street riot. The Salons of America, an offshoot, was started four years later by disgruntled Independents. As anyone might have predicted, the fight this year centered upon the now hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both societies were invited to exhibit. Claiming that Rockefeller authorities were certain to exercise censorship, John Sloan's Independents refused, went instead to the Grand Central Palace. Claiming exactly the opposite, the Salons went to the Center. Joy to the public...
...what will happen when the depression has lasted long enough to reduce the entire national corps of creative artists to the status of Government pensioners. Lugubrlous as the prospect is, it is not without its attractions: Mr. Mencken drawing a weekly stipend for turning out D.A.R. brochures, Senor Rivera naturalized and dotting the public parks of the land with equestrian General Pershings, a qualified muralist doing over the replastered Dartmouth Library walls with an "I pledge Allegiance to My Flag" motif . . . and subsidized humorists doing what they can with...