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...plethora of dreams flowed from America in the 1920s and '30s; and though, at least on the face of it, we have ceased to share them, they lend a deep and sometimes rather scary poignancy to the remarkable exhibition organized by Art Historians Richard Guy Wilson and Dianne H. Pilgrim, titled "The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941." The show will run until Feb. 16 at the Brooklyn Museum and travel to Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Atlanta through...
Weston was among the generation of photographers whose conversion to sharp focus from soft-edged pictorialism was the hinge on which the rest of the century's camerawork would turn. By the early 1920s he had already established an international reputation for mildly swoony images in gray-beige tones. He had also grown restless with pictorialism, which took its inspiration from impressionism, symbolism and the damper moments of Whistler. In time, he found a new expressive vocabulary in the angles and hard lines of constructivism and cubism, which he matched to a new photographic method. The focus was sharp...
...always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses not only an artistic temperament that rebels at the exigencies of routine but also a taste for booze. One night, well liquored, he improvises a score for a film about the life of Christ and plays For He's a Jolly Good Fellow during a scene depicting the Resurrection. So much...
...dead sea -- was created by these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase, but the color -- pinks, carmines, chromes, lilacs and an orange that glows like...