Word: shahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catalogue for his new exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, burly, amiable Ben Shahn, 60, himself dean of protest painters, sharply challenged the current cult of abstract expressionism. Said...
...Shahn concluded with a plea to artists to put mankind back into art. "Society needs more than anything else to be reminded that man is, in himself, ultimate value. It needs to be reminded that neither the pressure of events nor the exigencies of diplomacy can warrant the final debasement of man. Art is neither use, nor appointed task; but given human compulsions, some intellectual stature and great competence, it can perhaps bring man back into focus as being of supreme importance...
...have been very appreciative of your covers by some of the world's best artists. Ben Shahn's have been delightful and penetrating, and now we even have Rufino Tamayo! Thank...
...Opus Jazz, before brilliant backdrops by Ben Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
...Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds had come some of the freshest talent of the U.S. and Europe: Choreographers Jerome Robbins and John Butler, Conductor Thomas Schippers, Painters Ben Shahn and Saul Steinberg, Stage Director Luchino Visconti. The biggest eye opener of the festival so far was an irreverent band of youngsters in sweatshirts and sneakers imported by Choreographer Robbins to give Italians a bracing sample of modern ballet...