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Since two of the photographers currently presented were masters with a brush as well as with a camera, examining this show in terms of art leads to exciting comparisons. Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler are more frequently categorized and recognized as painters. Sheeler's "Geranium Plant," a frequent model for his paintings, appears here in double imagery as physical object and as mottled dises of shadow on a wall. The light coming through a window streaks across the wall--reminiscent of his precise and geometrical paintings of abstract light patterns. "Pennsylvania Barn" also maintains the geometric quality--horizontal fences, wooden...
...Norton professorship-held since 1925 by visiting scholars who lecture on the arts-has been filled in the past by such men as T.S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn, R Buckminster Fuller, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Lionel Trilling...
...Well, there was T.S. Eliot, Ben Shahn and now me. I don't know what that will do to it," said Charles Eames, referring to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry that he holds this year...
...WELL, there was T. S. Eliot, Ben Shahn, and now me. I don't know what that will do to it," said Charles Eames, referring to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair that he will hold next year...
...past the professorship has been held by such men as T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn. Sir Herbert Read. R. Buckminster Fuller, and Pier Luigi Nervi. This year the chair is held by Lionel Trilling, the noted critie...