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...AWAY FROM ME WITH THOSE CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by Sylvia Wright, McGraw-Hill, 247 pp., $3.95. Illustrated...
Painting in two distinct styles, Sylvia Carewe on one hand picks up her beat from the visual excitement and energy of Manhattan, transposes it into semiabstract scenes, e.g., an air view of Broadway done with splash and sparkle. With her other (and heavier) hand, she trowels on paint inches thick, won French critics' praise for a "violent, colorful art, in hard contrasts, not exempt from cold lyricism...
Broadway in Paris. Marcia will find that another U.S. woman painter has already been in Paris. Sylvia Carewe, the 5 ft.-tall, 43-year-old wife of Carter's Little Liver Pills Executive Marvin Small, had a solo show at the Left Bank gallery of Katia Granoff last week and received critics' salutes rarely fired off for visiting talents. She also sold ten of her 22 canvases at prices ranging from $500 to $1,500. After 14 years of painting, nine of regular showing from Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Ind. to Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...Sylvia's entire emotional crisis reaches the breaking point when she enters the barn and threatens Angelo with a loaded pistol. Suddenly her eyes fall on the goat giving birth to its young. This grotesquely summarizes her awakening to womanhood, her child's devotion to her parents, and her desire to be loved by Angelo. She runs from the barn crying, "I want...
...ending is somewhat of a shock, and yet once it begins to unfold, the entire climax is obvious. Angelo falls in the well, thus isolating the dramatic conflict between Agatha, Pia and Sylvia. Their love for Angelo finally devolves into an unsure hatred of him; yet each woman wants Angelo, and in the end no one gets...