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...AMERICAN CONSCIENCE-New School Art Center, 66 West 12th. The truism that the artist is concerned with society serves as an excuse to bring together some of the best realistic paintings -and a few not so realistic-of this century. The works range from Ben Shahn's famed The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti to Robert Rauschenberg's tribute to President Kennedy, Buffalo 1964. Through April...
...came to the fantastic. He began to place an occasional story-earning him $25 in Story or little more than prestige in Hound & Horn. With such encouragement and support, he moved into New York's Greenwich Village, met Dos Passes, E. E. Cummings, James Agee, Hart Crane, Ben Shahn, Gaston Lachaise...
...Moscow. Now New Yorkers can see what opened the eyes of the Russians: a near-duplicate show of the prints sent by the U.S. State Department in exchange for a Soviet graphic-arts show, now in Milwaukee. Woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, colorgraphs and intaglios by Sister Mary Corita, Ben Shahn, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, Sidney Goodman, Edmond Casarella and 15 other U.S. printmakers show off a revolution in graphic techniques. Through...
...SHAHN: PAINTINGS and BEN SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART edited by James Thrall Soby. 2 volumes; 286 pages. Braziller. $25. With 96 reproductions of Shahn's paintings and more than a hundred reproductions of his drawings, the disturbing power of Shahn's lonely visions is apparent-in wiry filaments of sparse, nervous lines, in the awkward bulk of bodies out of their element, in chalky faces whose sad eyes peer from sooty sockets. The effect, as in all Shahn's work, is of gritty reality viewed through the distorting lens of a dream...
...Downtown Gallery, 32 East 51st St. The poet and typographical eccentric was also a painter, but the influences of Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky on the 40-odd paintings in this show suggest that Cummings put his most original ideas into print. Also at Downtown, some paintings by Ben Shahn done as set designs for Cummings' play HIM. Through...