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...pretentious piece in the Advocate (no great feat). There are certain moments in which his characters seem to approach credibility. Mr. Wilson, however, was rather premature in submitting this story, and the Advocate has done him a positive disservice in printing it. Anyone who could write "Harry was a painter, his group was excited and wild, so Jody never fit in there," needs training in the fundamentals of English syntax, and greatly sharpened sensitivity in the semi-circular canals...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...
...Very Odd Specimen. Even in his person, he tried to be true to the "new spirit." One day in Paris, a friend of the painter Fernand Leger said to Leger: "Just wait. You're about to see a very odd specimen. He goes bicycling in a derby hat." Leger waited. "A few minutes later," he recalled, "I saw coming along, very stiff, completely in silhouette, an extraordinary mobile object under the derby hat with spectacles and a dark suit. He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective. The picturesque personage was none other than the architect Le Corbusier...
Captivated Audience. As Corbu built, he also wrote. In the U.S., Frank Lloyd Wright thundered his contempt for the French "painter and pamphleteer," but one by one, young architects were captivated by him. "There were no teachers to teach us the new architecture," says the Chinese-American architect. I. M. Pei, "so we turned to Corbu's books and these were responsible for half our education." In Greece, a young student named Constantinas Doxiadis, who was to become famous in his own land, got a Corbu book as a gift on Christmas Eve in 1932. "I glanced through...
...until 1955, while Aub was on a lecture tour in Mexico, did he "meet" J.T.C. By then, the painter, as Aub tells it, was a wizened, forgotten genius, the "missing link" of modern art, living like a peasant and "crossbreeding" with Indian maidens. Shunting aside his own work, Aub became so caught up with his invention that he devotedly contributed his talents to "resurrecting the reputation of Campalans." He composed a scholarly biography, right down to footnotes that have footnotes. For pictures of his subject's peasant parents, Aub used a pair of appropriate Spanish postcards. To document J.T.C...