Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of the exhibition is not so much that of a spectacle as it is of a visual encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound...
...autocratic ruling, that the names of actors and actresses in plays put on the air will no longer be announced. Amazing B.B.C. explanation: Hundreds of listeners have complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British listener can concentrate satisfactorily, enjoys the auditory image...
...opinion the natives of Liberia are of a type superior to those found in many parts of Africa. He comments upon the relative insensibility-to-pain characteristic of these blacks and believes that in general their olfactory, visual, and auditory senses are not more keenly developed than those of whites. He discusses the "mobility of character" of the primitive Negro--"an inconsistency of impressions and sentiments, which only touch the consciousness without leaving there anything else but a fleeting imprint." The emotions of the Liberian native, his sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice...
...Manet "Still Life of Fish," lent by Messrs. Durand-Ruel, there is an intensity of visual effect that startles. Here is no philosophizing or sentimentality. The artist sees with eyes more widely open than most of us. In contrast to this the Gauguin Still Life--the Table with Fruit and Flowers, lent by Mr. John T. Spaulding. Here the artist is in a tender mood which is something of a surprise...
...Visual Sensation", (with experimental demonstrations.) Professor Boring. Emerson...