Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Salles and his colleagues had good reason to chuckle. Reason: the winning work was not there at all, but 3,620 miles away on two 9-ft.-8-in.-high walls at Paris' new UNESCO headquarters (see color). In a sense, the choice of Joan Miró, 65, involved some polite intramural logrolling. Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works...
...longtime painter-around-Paris, Miró has lived in his native Spain since World War II, five years ago began new experiments in ceramics in collaboration with his old friend Josep Llorens-Artigas (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). For the past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained...
...Thunderer. Soviet researches, summarized in a handsome outsized volume published this year by UNESCO (Early Russian Icons, New York Graphic Society; $18), establish the medieval stronghold city of Novgorod, southeast of Leningrad, as one of the great centers of icon making. A Constantinople-trained Greek named Theophanes-called by a contemporary the "very excellent book illuminator and painter"-was the artist who brought the secrets of Byzantium's golden age to the cold north in the late 14th century, sparked Novgorod's greatest period...
Should a Catholic girl refuse to be sold in marriage, even if the price is right? This question, which is significant in bride-buying Africa, was one of many debated last week by 300 Roman Catholic women from ten African countries who met under UNESCO sponsorship in Lome, steamy capital of the French West African autonomous Republic of Togoland. Balancing the imperatives of religion against the demands of custom, they found bride buying acceptable-if rising prices do not shut out Christian suitors...
...commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation of his sculptures, used in a ballet set in Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. Soon to be installed at the new Paris headquarters of UNESCO is the most ambitious of all Sculptor Calder's works -a 30-ft.-high mobile, The Clockwise Spiral...