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...BACKGROUND FOR VENUS-James Laver -Knopf ($2.50). Patchy, mildly entertaining story of London art, artists, models, dealers and double-dealers...
...Tuesday Dr. Kraus will present an historical background and analysis of the social and political forces which have brought about the new regime. Internal, social, and economic disintegration, the situation of the middle classes, and the pressure of foreign politics are factors which he will consider...
...never print were on view in his exhibition last week. Two were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass in the foreground was a horrid little girl hoisting her skirts before a legless War veteran, with tears rolling down his cheeks...
...visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters of Revolution, three prim spinsters against a background of Washington grossing the Delaware, were his first attack. This year, what most critics consider his most important painting. Dinner 'or Threshers (see reproduction), won no prize at the Carnegie International it Pittsburgh but was voted third most popular by the public. Simple and direct, he picture bears as genuine...
...figure will find in either of these biographies a straightforward, authoritative account of his tragic life. Author Hervey Allen's Israjel, originally published (1926) in two volumes, is generally regarded as the standard life of Poe. For a thoroughgoing, impartial but humane portrait, complete with all relevant details of background, Israjel gives the reader all he either desires or deserves to know...