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Priced at about $2.50 per square inch of canvas (from $350 to $6,000), Léger's solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys...
¶ "I am looking forward to reading Remarque's new book, Arch of Triumph, but I don't suppose I shall like it, because it is indignant. Everyone's indignant about something nowadays."
The difference lies in the fact that London nowadays burns far less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory...
Litwak is already hankering after the mantle of famed Primitive Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Parisian customs inspector who retired to paint leafy jungle fantasies, without ever having seen a jungle. Says Litwak of Rousseau: "Plenty to criticize, but all right." He prefers him to Pittsburgh's late John...
For years Goddard held up to his staff the one perfect American Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO FRONT DOOR. Porter, who wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found...