Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
...Victorian at heart, Britain's "major minor poet" sings (warmly) of homely, gaslit old England and (satirically) of homely, neonlit new England...
...French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury to which he goaded proper Victorians bubbled over in 1877 when Ruskin, the reigning art pundit of the day, wrote that...
...usually gets, Author Gregory believes. He sees Whistler as a proto-impressionist, as an early Western exponent of Japanese and Chinese techniques, and as the experimental godfather of modern nonobjective painting. Less debatably, Author Gregory ranks Whistler as a culture hero who refused to play drawing-room jester to Victorian philistines and who always regarded art as a basic necessity, not a superficial luxury of civilized life...
...Caesar Special (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Comics Caesar and Audrey Meadows give assorted views of love and marriage from the Victorian parlor to the split-level living room. Jose Ferrer, Marge and Gower Champion, Connie Francis...