Word: wittenborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair, gave no hint that he was joking, and he wasn't, though in the old days he had been one of the foremost pranksters of the Dada school of art which preceded surrealism. Dada, said Arp in a recently published book of his writings (On My Way; Wittenborn, Schultz, $4.50), "gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that his bells began to buzz, his safes frowned and his honors broke out in spots...
...half a century, African Negro sculpture has been much admired by connoisseurs. British Critic Roger Fry unhesitatingly called it "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made . . ." Photographs of 40 such primitive carvings, collected by Copenhagen's Carl Kjersmeier and published in book form last week (Wittenborn; $5.50), gave laymen a chance to see what the shouting was about...
...shiver of apprehension, but very few are good just to look at. Among those few are the ads dreamed up by youthful designer Paul Rand. Rand packed 102 of his best jobs (plus a few stilted pages of art philosophizing) into Thoughts on Design, published last week (Wittenborn...
...collectors of art-and of quotation marks-a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...
...filled with "total aerial vibration," Seurat made innumerable sketches, spent two whole years (1884-86). Last week the life of the painter had its first full and fascinating exposition in English, at the hands of a 31-year-old German-born and Sorbonne-trained critic, John Rewald (Georges Seurat; Wittenborn...