Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painter, De Chirico long ago lost his punch; as a peddler, he still has plenty of push. In June, the superannuated master proved it with an eye-catching ad for Fiat automobiles (TIME, July 3). Last week he was again honking his own horn at a conservative sideshow to Venice's vast international roundup of modern art, the "Biennale" (TIME, June...
Most critics ignored both De Chirico's sideshow and his rasping taunts, but the influential Italian weekly Europeo struck back: "De Chirico's [new paintings] are dry, trite, and the images toneless . . . It is not enough to wish in words for a renaissance...