Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another objection was Dulles' stipulation that the U.S. (in view of the atom-denying McMahon Act) will keep the nuclear warheads "in the custody" of the U.S. Said the neutralist Le Monde, speaking for a considerable body of French opinion: "France cannot shelter on her soil arms of massive destruction which expose her to reprisals unless she is associated in the decision to use them...
...desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What's wrong with art critics? "Most of them are too superficial...
...Feel, Think, Imagine." One of the new breed of action painters. Soulages follows the trail blazed by Hans Hartung (TIME, April i), but carries to the extreme the view that "reality is not in appearance alone, but also in what men feel, think, imagine." For him, even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...
...sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
...whose interests are the same as his tutees. A concentrator whose special emphasis lies in American history, for example, might study original writings of the late nineteenth century in order to determine for himself the causes of Progressivism. This would at the same time give him a more integral view of historical movements, which the discrete quality of his courses--economic, political, social or intellectual history--often precludes...