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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 80 years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh still remains a startlingly modern artist. Psychologists continue to delight in analyzing the psychoses betrayed by his tormented whorls. Lovers of abstract expressionism find in his sulfurous palette a close relationship with Pollock and De Kooning. Yet, as is made clear by a lively display of 90 Van Gogh watercolors and drawings (see color opposite) that go on view this month at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, Van Gogh was in more than one major respect a 19th century man. While today's painters see their paintings as objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Electricity in Water | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...scenes he wanted to do in oils. In the last ten years of his life, he produced 800 oils and an even larger number of preliminary drawings and watercolors. The process of distilling the essence of dozens of sketches into one painting "was something like an electric discharge," says Vincent W. Van Gogh, his nephew and chairman of the foundation from whose collection the current display was assembled. "That's why in Provence he could very often complete a large painting in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Electricity in Water | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

There was throughout such splendid coordination between James Burt's stage direction and Vincent Canzoneri's work with the traditionally polished orchestra that any attempt to resolve the two and pick at each must be regarded as undialectic and moreover silly. The old criticism that Sullivan's score is a bit churchy is true but in this instance besides the point. The orchestra has a certain lightness, a brassiness of tone which deletes much of what is sentimental in the music...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Patience | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

...Agence France Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi, and during the six-day war between the Arabs and Israelis, the agency maintained service from Cairo, Damascus and Amman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wire Services: Under De Gaulle's Umbrella | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...conducting the survey was Vincent F. Conroy, lecturer on Education and director of field studies for Harvard's School of Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of South Vietnamese Universities Describes Severe Problems, Shortcomings | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

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