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Right Is Wrong. Fact is that since the war, Japan's intellectuals have been gripped in a sort of reverse McCarthyism; no Japanese artist, poet, professor or painter dares to be labeled a "rightist." Most a're socialists, and they pride themselves on being "agin' the government." They companionably join Communists in a bewildering array of organizations with names like Youth and Student Struggle Council, Committee for Freedom of Expression, National Conference for Reopening of Japan-China Relations. They provide the intellectual leadership for such huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600,000-strong teachers union; Zengakuren...
...Alfred Stieglitz and exclaimed, "That man is working in the same direction I am!" Picasso spoke for the small group that had long realized that a great photographer is also a great artist. But one pesky question remains: Since even a bad or indifferent photographer-unlike a bad painter-can by accident produce a great picture, how much is art and how much is fortuitous subject matter? Last week, in Manhattan, the question was noisily reopened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of 176 photographs, a few of which are reproduced above and on the following color...
...would not like to drive a racing car unless there was an element of danger involved, any more than I would like to fight a bull without horns. And when I take a corner perfectly, it's like a painter who has been sweating at a portrait and can't quite capture a smile and then makes it with one stroke of the brush...
...Veen has had a stroke at home, but when she awakes, she is still in the little ward. She is 74. "A good age," the doctor says. But what can be good about it? Her husband is dead. Her only child is married to a poverty-bound painter in Paris. And the nagging pain in her stomach is no mystery to either the doctor or the reader. But though she dreads death, it is the contemplation of life present and past that makes Mrs. Van der Veen touching...
...perfect for his period-a handsome, somewhat dandyish man who was given to fits of black melancholy, complained of "constitutional languor," suffered from compulsive extravagance. The Duchess of Devonshire was his patron, David Garrick encouraged him. King George III appointed him to the lucrative post of Painter in Ordinary...