Word: selden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SELDEN RODMAN...
...young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn...
...sleeping dogs of Mr. Selden Rodman's disagreement with my views of art and beauty lie [Nov. 28]; I am flattered by the attention he has paid me. There is someone, however, to whom I believe he has done a grave injustice in his book [The Eye of Man] -an artist not here to defend himself. I speak of the Pole, Jan Styka, close friend of Paderewski and one of the great men of his day, creator of the 200-ft.-wide painting Crucifixion at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. [TIME, April 2, 1951]. If Mr. Rodman...
That simple question, to which almost any layman would answer yes, gets a fast and furious no from many of today's esthetes. Even to ask it in arty circles is to sound like a hick or a troublemaker. Selden Rodman, who is neither, uses it to kick off one of the most provocative art books in years (The Eye of Man; Devin-Adair; $10). His own answer-affirmative-rattles the lattices of a hundred ivory towers...
...Selden Chapin, 55, to be Ambassador to Iran. Careerman Chapin, a wealthy, dewlapped sportsman (golf, sailing) and an Annapolis graduate, has knocked around the world for 30 years in the Foreign Service. In 1949, as U.S. Minister to Communist Hungary, he was accused of conspiring with Cardinal Mindszenty, declared non grata and thrown out of the country (Chapin dismissed the charges as "pure fantasy...