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...Germany. During this term he also led a seminar in European socialism and communism in the interwar period; he has written a book on the Second International, and another on Three Intellectuals in Politics, Leon Blum, Walther Rathenau, and F.T. Marinetti. The last of the three, the Italian futurist painter who had so much in common with D'Anaunzio, is an especially illuminating corner of Joll's work: he confesses to fascination with the "links between artistic and social and political development" in this century, between "the breakdown of conventions in the arts...and the growing interest in why people...
Died. Gabriele Münter, 85, eminent German expressionist painter and one of the key founders of the fabled Blue Rider group of modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee), a mournful, gentle Berliner who was Abstractionist Kandinsky's longtime mistress and just last year received her first U.S. one-woman show; after a long illness; in Murnau, Germany. Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance...
Only once every five years does the American Academy of Arts and Letters give its Award of Merit Medal to a painter-a procedure that prevents hasty recognition of a talent that might turn out to be only one year's fad. Last week, as if underlining its case for judging in perspective, the academy presented the award and $1,000 to an artist who is three years retired from a careful half-century of working in a style far removed from the painting that dominates today's galleries...
Scarcely anyone would deny Sheeler these virtues. He is one of the few American artists who was a photographer as well as a painter, and some of his painting is difficult to tell from his photography...
...members include Janet Abramowicz, a painter and print-maker with a diploma from the Academia delle Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy; Marcia Allentuck, a lecturer in English literature at City College in New York, who will study British and German aesthetics and literature; and Ingrid G. Brainard, a musicologist who will prepare a study of 15th century dancing and its contribution to cultural history and musicology...