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...volumes; $150). In a way, these volumes, edited by four art historians, represent the truest kind of biography, for the decades have worn away old enmities, and what remains is the record of a genius who grew from American prodigy to European master. The attractive work should win the painter a new audience, and therefore deserves an alternative title: The Gentler Art of Making Friends...
...they stayed in the closet, curling up at the toes. In the late '50s, he and Snidow studied art at a school in Hollywood, of all places, and his G.I. Bill ran out, so he went back to Oklahoma. There he set himself up as an easel painter; commercial art didn't interest him. The paintings he liked to do interested almost no one else. What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush, that nobody bought. He lugged his canvases to stock shows trying to peddle them...
A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...
...Figueras, Spain, that ended his mysterious six months of seclusion. To bring poetry to life, Dali carried an elaborate, eagle-headed sword and distributed tuberoses to reporters. His costume was no less vivid: a leopardskin coat and red barrenita cap. Answering questions in French, Spanish and Catalan, the painter declared, "I am monarchist, Catholic and Roman," but without a political creed "because nobody knows whether the Venus de Milo was a fascist or a Communist." When pressed about a Catalan government investigation into his affairs, he insisted, "I like to pay taxes." Dali then reiterated a previously announced intention...
...that commits itself to the application of virulent stereotypes, as Grosz's did, is not realist at all, and this problem be comes still worse with a painter like Georg Scholz. Scholz's Industrialized Farmers, 1920, is all rant and bile directed against the country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult...