Word: slavs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots, 200 being polled for Count Bninski (Right), and 1 for M. Marek (Socialist), with 63 Deputies abstaining - mostly from the White Russian, Slav, National Workers, and Piast (Peasant) parties...
Ivan Mestrovic, a Jugo Slav sculptor of international reputation has loaned one piece of statuary, two carved wood paneis and six drawings to the Fogg Art Museum. In addition the Jugo Slav Government has loaned a marble portrait statue by the sculptor of his mother...
Rodin said of him, "Mestrovic is the greatest phenomenon amongst the sculptors". Speaking of the Jugo Slav artist, James Bone. Director of the Modern Art Gallery of the British Museum, has said, "In sculpture an artist must have a message if he is to be known to his generation. He must also have unusual resolution and initiative on account of the practical disadvantages of intractable and costly material and the scarcity of commissions. So under modern conditions there are few sculptors with reputation, and the advent of a new genius is a matter of real importance to Europe, and calls...
...Yugo-Slav Ambassador at Washington made advances to Secretary Kellogg looking forward to the funding of the Yugo-Slavian debt. But that is a minor matter-only about $65,000,000, as compared to the billions owed by France and Italy...
...Brooklyn Museum, founded in 1824, celebrates its centenary, notably with an exhibition of the works of Ivan Mestrovic, Yugo-Slav sculptor. Only 41 years of age, Mestrovic has nevertheless for years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with...