Word: selden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Selden Rodman has made a, host of both friends and enemies in Manhattan always impassioned, sometimes shrill art world. What excites both camps is Critic Rodman's controversial habit of asking big questions about art and then offering plain answers in book form. Rodman's The Eye of Man (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955) asked whether artists should not "communicate spiritual truth," and replied with an emphatic yes. Now Rodman is deep in a new book, The Insiders, which asks whether artists should not paint what they feel in a recognizable fashion for all to understand. Again he gives...
...Jersey farmhouse last week, Selden Rodman, 50, showed reporters his own swelling art collection, which ranges from Haitian primitives to an abstraction painted on the spot in 1 min. 40 sec. The collection crams every room of the house, is growing so fast that Rodman recently added a gallery wing where his favorite new "insiders" hang. Chief insiders: Rico Lebrun, Leonard Baskin, James Kearns. Lebrun is typically represented by an agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns...
...first doubles from Richardson and Hicks, 8-6, 6-2. Tim Gallwey, at number three, took Chris Grose, 6-2, 6-0, and fourth man Fred Vinton beat Marty Lowy, 6-2, 6-2. Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood rounded out the singles victories with easy wins over Mark Selden and Andy Ingersoll...
...dimensions of Orozco's power, bitterness and weight, or of the clumsiness, coarseness and obviousness that make him so controversial. One perceptive critic recently returned from looking at the frescoes has joined Orozco's most fervent disciples. In his new book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well as warm. Sample opinions...
Rebellion. Like Henry Ford, who broke the Selden pool of automotive patents in 1911 by refusing to pay royalties, Zenith President Eugene McDonald openly rebelled. In 1946 he stopped RCA royalty payments on radio tubes, filed a suit in Delaware charging an RCA conspiracy to monopolize the industry through patent control. In 1954 Zenith incorporated the original suit in a new one filed in Chicago, asking $16,056,000 in damages from RCA, Western Electric, Westinghouse, General Electric and 14 foreign electric companies. It charged that all had conspired with RCA to keep Zenith out of foreign markets through patent...