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...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...
...earliest Surrealistes, in advance of the movement proper, were Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernest, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro. Chirico's early neo-classic landscapes were more truly landscapes, for the shadows were thrown towards the sun, the sky was perhaps green, and a more than natural poignancy was continually attested by these imperceptible distortions. Besides being a "Surrealiste" Chirico was a master of painting, and continued painting until past the inception of the full-fledged school. Max Ernest, independent of the school, matures day by day in his own inimitable lyricism. The verdict of time will undoubtedly confirm...
...theology is currently not so dead as it was a decade ago, and in gloomy, depressed Europe it is actually alive. Who are its leaders? Most thoughtful Europeans know of Lecerf the French neo-Calvinist, Heim the Lutheran. But all are aware of Karl Barth, 45, Swiss founder of a potent Christian philosophy...
...four p.m. one afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They, too, were going to see an O'Neill play-an important one backed by the resources of the world's most ambitious experimental theatre, performed by great Actresses Alice Brady and Alla Nazimova, the work of a mature genius...
...obscure, the most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds and melancholy children in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier. Always changing his style, he developed what art critics like to call his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Neo-Classic Period, etc., etc. He became more and more abstract, more and more removed from humanity. Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism. He is the wellspring of that latest artistic unintelligibility, Surrealism, which has been defined as "the expression of thought without the control of reason, that...