Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration's foreign policy is less ambitious than liberation, more positive than containment. Walt Whitman Rostow, head of the State Department's policy planning board, sums it up like this: "We seek to build a community of independent nations, their governments increasingly responsive to the consent of the governed, cooperating of their own free will in their areas of interdependence, settling their disputes by peaceful means. On the basis of this kind of community of free nations, we seek by every means at our disposal compatible with our own security and that of other free nations...
Then came Hitler. By 1945, when this Walt Disney picture begins, Allied bombs are bursting in the courtyard of the academy and Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn...
...position. The choice had repercussions no one foresaw: while the Henri group wanted to put on a huge exhibition to call attention to "progressive" American art, Davies happened to have an instinctive appreciation of the experiments going on in Europe. One day he sent to his friend Painter Walt Kuhn the catalogue from a show of modern art going on in Cologne that contained works by many of Europe's comers. "I wish we could have a show like this." he wrote, and Kuhn enthusiastically agreed. Within two weeks, Kuhn was off to Europe to make a selection...
...works sold, the French outnumbered the American 4 to 1. When Walt Kuhn submitted the sales report to members of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which had started the whole thing, the grand disillusionment set in. One after another the American artists read it, and one after another they resigned. As Painter Jerome Myers sadly explained: "Our land of opportunity I was thrown wide open to foreign art, unirestricted and triumphant; more than ever ! before, our great country had become a colony; more than ever before, we had become provincials...
...Ashcan hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work, John Marin is seen to be one of the most imaginative artists of his time, and even Maurice Prendergast has been reassessed as a far more daring painter than his antimacassar subject matter made him seem. Freshman Stuart Davis, then...