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...With the 20th century, the nude came into its own, only to disintegrate in the last 15 years under the probing abstractionist brushes of Willem de Kooning and others like him. The exhibition has a rare nude by Maurice Prendergast, a delicate bit of impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though...
...been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...
Roasted Steak. Could the defendant deny his dictated postwar interview with Willem A. Sassen in which he boasted of his wartime eminence...
Three of the reproductions are in color. Eisenhower is one. Willem de Kooning's polyschizoid Marilyn Monroe is another, into which much can be read. The catalogue ends with the aggressive reds, oranges, and yellows of Karel Appel's Dizzy Gillespie, in which one can hear the searing screams of the trumpeter's high F. It would be hard to think of a better bargain than this publication; it well merits a permanent place on one's shelves...
...Among them: Abstract Expressionists Ferren, James Brooks. Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning; Sculptors David Smith and David Hare; Critics Alfred Frankfurter and Thomas Hess of Art News; Fine Arts Professors James S. Ackerman (Harvard) and Meyer Schapiro (Columbia...