Dear Editor
Dear Editor Stuff Snubbed I wouldn't have thought it possible to write two full magazine pages about "Violin Jazz" (NL, June 21) without mentioning Stuff Smith, but your boy Bruce Cook managed it....
...Mamaroneck, N.Y...
...New York City Scott Frankel | Bell I was sorry to read of Pearl K, Bell's...
...Hurry back, Mrs...
...On the contrary, many do, most notably a simple blow-up of the famous black-and-white photograph of the Kent State shootings...
...She begins by contending that the aim of a poster should always be simple communication...
...Bell's sheer joy in words and precision of language always gave me pleasure...
...Besides her considerable kill and perceptiveness as a literary critic, Mrs...
...Raynor's objections were more political than esthetic, more against the points than the art...
...If transmitting information were all that was required, a loudspeaker system would work just as well...
...Mark Woll...
...art...
...I should think that Hanser would have been no less indignant over my barely mentioning Joe Venuti...
...Specifically, I had in mind Joe Venuti, Stephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, and Jean-Luc Ponty, taking them in no particular order...
...it should not attempt to be a work of The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...So many of these posters did effectively get their point across, in fact, that couldn't help wondering if Ms...
...Bell...
...But since Stuff Smith has been dead now 11 years and Eddie South even longer, I saved a bit of space by not naming them and taking the time to describe their styles...
...Poster Politics I was a little confused by Vivien Raynor's objections to the exhibition Images of an Era ("Pondering the Poster," NL, July 5...
...I chose to talk about Grappelli and Ponty because Grappelli had just finished his first real national tour and both had new and quite impressive albums out...
...Richard Hanser Bruce Cook replies: I said that jazz violinists of note could be numbered on the fingers of one hand...
...Posters, commercial and otherwise, have the additional dvantage of being the most universally accessible art form around these days...
...Washington, DC...
...Raynor thereupon criticizes the polical posters in the show, which are the best examples of the communicative potential of to form, on the grounds that "none make be viewer feel a deep and personal sense of wrong...
...abbatical leave...
...Every New Leader column of hers was proof that it least one writer still had faith in English as a conveyor of enthusiasm, judgment, heart-felt reproach...
...Yet why not...
Vol. 59 • July 1976 • No. 15
