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...wedge-shaped marks on a clay tablet, carefully compiling a pharmacopoeia. His calligraphy was better than most doctors': he got more than a dozen formulas on the two sides of a tablet little bigger than a modern picture postcard. Then the sands of the desert covered the great Sumerian city of Nippur (90 miles southeast of Babylon), and the physician's secrets were lost for thousands of years...
...before that could happen, Picasso had climbed back into overalls, and his art was on a new tack-one which took him straight over the horizon and out of most solid citizens' ken. He borrowed ideas from the whole range of art history, carving figures that looked like Sumerian fetishes, and drawing in every manner from the Cro-Magnon to that of severe 19th Century classicists such as Ingres. His subject matter became anything at all-dogs, women, roosters, bones, furniture, dots, musicians-violently twisted, hacked, smeared and rearranged to suit Picasso's moods...
...first of the 2,778 illustrations in these volumes shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
International Impression. The overall impression of the United Nations show is of a hasty hodgepodge: oriental rugs, Central American tombstones, early Sumerian sculpture, a strictly Tsarist Russian picture of the jigsaw-puzzle school-and a few really fine things like the stone Hand of a Buddha from China's northern Ch'i dynasty, Honoré Daumier's Crispin and Scapin and Rembrandt's Man with Turban...