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 Tracking a Tireless Victorian
(December 1991)
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Tracking a Tireless Victorian Trollope: A Biography By N. John Hal! Clarendon Press/Oxford. 581 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein &...
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Belated Justice
(September 1984)
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Belated Justice Josephine Herbst By Elinor Longer Atlantic/Little Brown. 374pp. $19.95. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Biographer and critic; author, "Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda...
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Life of a Vanishing Breed
(December 1977)
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Life of a Vanishing Breed The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucester By Kim Bartlett Norton. 251 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein &...
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Yearning for the Unattainable
(December 1975)
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Yearning for the Unattainable George Sand: A Biography By Curtis Cate Houghton Mifflin. 812 pp. $17.50. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company" Henry...
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Satirist Turned Seer
(March 1975)
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Satirist Turned Seer Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford Knopf. 769 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Art critic, New York "Times"; author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein &...
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On Art
(January 1972)
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On Art MODERN PRIMITIVISM by JAMES R. MELLOW The career of Henry Moore, England's reigning sculptor, is one of the remarkable success stories of modern art. At about the age of 11 ????he was born...
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On Art
(December 1971)
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On Art AMERICA'S FIRST ARTISTS BY JAMES R MELLOW Like a large lump of unassimilated culture, the exhibition Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Ai t has settled into the Whitney Museum...
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On Art
(November 1971)
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On Art LIGHT IN AMBER BY JAMES R MELLOW My interest in Fitz Hugh Lane, a recently rediscovered 19th-century American master, is admittedly somewhat personal A marine painter. Lane (1804-65) was...
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On Art
(November 1971)
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On Art PURSUING PERFECTION BY JAMES R. MELLOW THE ART OF Piet Mondnan (1872-1944) is among the most beautifully ordered and rational in the history of modem painting Seldom has its superbly...
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On Art
(October 1971)
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On Art DESIGNING A NEW SOCIETY BY JAMES R. MELLOW THERE can scarcely be a more absorbing chapter in the history of modern art than the rise and fall of the Russian avant-garde in the decade...
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On Art
(July 1971)
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On Art FLORENTINE GOLD AND BRASS BY JAMES R. MELLOW AS A SPECIAL summer attraction, the Metropolitan Museum is displaying its entire Florentine collection. The occasion is the Met's publication...
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On Art
(June 1971)
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On Art PLASTIC SPACEMAN BY JAMES R. MELLOW INTERVIEWER: So it's not the obvious mechanized world you're concerned with? CALDER: Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap. Alexander Calder, 73,...
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On Art
(May 1971)
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On Art THE ARTIST AS SUPERSTAR BY JAMES R. MELLOW A GRISLY news photo of a car crash: The image, enlarged and repeated for emphasis, has been silk-screened onto canvas in a blunt, un-artistic...
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On Art
(May 1971)
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On Art A FAILURE OF NERVE BY JAMES R. MELLOW Douglas Cooper, the peppery British art historian, critic and friend of the Cubists who organized the expansive and impressive display, The Cubist...
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On Art
(April 1971)
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On Art THE BIRTH OF CUBISM BY JAMES R. MELLOW The year is 1907. Picasso has completed his monstrous "Demoiselles d'Avignon," a bizarre painting of five nudes, supposedly the ladies of a "house"...
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On Art
(March 1971)
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On Art THE REAL VAN GOGH BY JAMES R. MELLOW vINCENT VAN GOGH IS One of those unfortunate artists who have been worked to death by the media. Several years ago Hollywood made a high-powered,...
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On Art
(February 1971)
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On Art PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD BY JAMES R. MELLOW L'Estampe Originate is the title of a remarkable publishing venture undertaken in the early 1890s by Andre Marty, the director of a French art...
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On Art
(January 1971)
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On Art VISITING THE STEINS BY JAMES R. MELLOW FOR THE Steins-hose gregarious, intelligent American expatriates-esthetics was a family affau It determined their life styles, their friendships, the...
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On Art
(December 1970)
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On Art MIDDLE AMERICA'S CHOSEN PEOPLE BY JAMES R. MELLOW It is difficult to feel properly sympathetic toward the Aztecs Their sudden rise to dominance over Middle America was phenomenal They...
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On Art
(November 1970)
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On Art DADAIST SPANISH KNIGHT ERRANT BY JAMES R. MELLOW Francis Picabia liked fast women and powerful cars. In 1897, at the age of 18, he launched a lifetime career of amorous adventures by...
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On Art
(October 1970)
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On Art PACKAGED LIVING BY JAMES R. MELLOW Whatever other functions it may serve, a house is a form of packaging. Its purpose is to protect its human occupants--theoretically for a...
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Architecture and the Environment
(August 1970)
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On Art ARCHITECTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BY JAMES R. MELLOW N L ^ ot every picture is worth a thousand words. There are subjects that do not yield up everything they have to offer in strictly...
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On Art
(June 1970)
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On Art CENTENNIAL KITSCH BY JAMES R. MELLOW The 19th century—that great attic-lode of solid virtues and solid vices—is the subject of a mammoth exhibition on view now and through the summer at...
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On Art
(May 1970)
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On Art contrasting lifestyles BY JAMES R. MELLOW The Museum of Modern Art recently juxtaposed two remarkably contradictory life styles, the naturalistic and the mechanistic. It honored the first...
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On Art
(April 1970)
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On Art FROM ROMANESQUE TO GOTHIC BY JAMES R MELLOW T ? he customary view of the period encompassing the late 12th and early 13th centuries is that it was an age of transition Western...
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On Art
(March 1970)
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On Art RETURN OF REALISM BY JAMES R MELLOW T ^ here is a sense in which all representational painting is illustration al It illustrates on the two-dimensional shape of a canvas what the viewer...
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On Art
(February 1970)
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On Art TRAVELING THROUGH 'SPACES' BY JAMES R. MELLOW jl^f art exhibitions were rated like Broadway entertainments, one would have to count the current "Spaces" exhibition at the Museum of Modern...
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On Art
(January 1970)
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On Art DEATH OF THE AVANT-GARDE BY JAMES R. MELLOW It is like some vast visual echo chamber: The all-white, the all off-white, the all monochrome canvases (in shades from radiant pink to soft...
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The Met Goes Modern
(December 1969)
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On Art THE MET GOES MODERN BY JAMES R. MELIOVV XJ JL JLenry's Show—as the huge exhibition, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," organized and selected by the Metropolitan Museum's...
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BRITISH DISCOVERIES
(November 1969)
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On Art BRITISH DISCOVERIES BY JAMES R. MELLOW London The current art season here has been marked by few surprises. Most galleries are showing the customary modern masters and select salon...
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OLDENBURG'S SCATOLOGICAL 'SOFT' TOUCH
(November 1969)
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On Art OLDENBURGS SCATOLOGICAL SOFT TOUCH BY JAMES R. MELLOW since coming on the scene in the early '60s, Claes Oldenburg, the Swedish-born Pop artist, has been assigned the role of the clown or...
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Avoiding Group-Think
(July 1969)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Avoiding Group-Think On the face of it, the polemics surrounding the Museum of Modern Art's current show. "The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First...
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David Smith's Stamp of Genius
(April 1969)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow David Smith's Stamp of Genius Outside the Guggenheim Museum, in a contest of equals, a big yellow industrial crane was hoisting the clustered stainless steel volumes of...
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A Passion for Destruction
(March 1969)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow A Passion for Destruction SEVERAL YEARS AGO, an exhibition of "Fifty Years of American Art" brought about a chance confrontation between two modern American painters...
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On Art
(February 1969)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Soft Goods and Hardware Some typical examples: a four-foot-high aluminum bin heaped with gray rock samples from Palisades Park, New Jersey (Robert Smithson's Nonsite:...
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On Art
(December 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow End of an Era Painting was never a satisfactory medium for dealing with the machine. Two-dimensional and static, it could only reproduce the significant forms of engines...
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On Art
(December 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Style Is Not Enough ^^¦he eschatology of civili-| zations is a subject still undisturbed by deep thought." That provocative statement by George Kubler, the Yale art...
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On Art
(November 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Museums and Cemeteries f ?|KJBuseums, cemeteries! . . IYI the Italian Futurists proclaimed, equating the two venerable institutions. Surrounded by the artistic heritage...
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On Art
(October 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Magic Yardsticks One afternoon several years ago, when I was editor of Arts Magazine, an elderly gentleman from Brooklyn presented himself at my office. Buttoned-up...
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On Art
(August 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Object Lessons By a nice coincidence, two exhibitions which address themselves to the question of the real in its relationship to art have settled into the Museum of...
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Puncturing the Strachey Myth
(August 1968)
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the Strachey Myth LYTTON STRACHEY By Michael Holroyd Holt, Rinehart & Winston Vol. 1-11. 1,229 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by JAMES R. MELLOW Such longueurs! Recuperating in Menton: "I have...
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On Art
(July 1968)
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By James R. Mellow Rousseau's Red Plush Sofa Henri rousseau, that gentle and wily painter of bourgeois daydreams, is a special case in the history of modern art. Although he was taken up by such...
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On Art
(June 1968)
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ON ART Picasso offers a clue: "In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a...
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On Art
(May 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Tangle of Expressionism As a style and as a functional term, Expressionism is badly in need of attention. The style remains a very mixed bag in the history of...
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On Art
(April 1968)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The 'Exquisite Corpses' The cultural revisionism that is such a noticeable feature of the current season has received additional impetus from the large Dada and...
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On Art
(March 1968)
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ON MUSIC ON ART By James R. Mellow Eyeing the Dots In the past, any discussion about Neo-Impressionism was a discussion about Seurat. It is chastening, therefore, to see the Neo-Im-pressionist...
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Picasso's Private Menagerie
(November 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Picasso's Private Menagerie With picasso, what begins in love ends in parody He is a man who cannot help seeing the ridiculous side of even those things he feels deeply...
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On Art
(October 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Sculpture Everywhere Behind the august Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, two union gravediggers dug a hole six feet long and three feet across. After a lunch...
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On Art
(August 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Those Wide Open Spaces Sheer size is an attribute of the country Perhaps for this reason scale seems to have assumed the role of an American imperative, the idea of...
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On Art
(July 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Modern's Acquired Tastes Happenings, Pop Art, record attendance figures m the museums, a too-responsive press, the waning influence of Abstract Expressionism—the...
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On Art
(June 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Architecture with a Difference Iam not sure what Elayne Varian, organizer of the recent Schemata 7 exhibition in the Contemporary Study Wing of the Finch College Museum...
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On Art
(May 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Art History Without Art The title of Neil Harris' book, The Artist in American Society (Braziller, 432 pp., $7.50), is exact and limiting. To be sure, it contains a good...
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On Art
(April 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Legend of Jackson Pollock Predictably, the legend of Jackson Pollock has returned to haunt the large Jackson Pollock retrospective now installed at the Museum of...
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On Art
(March 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow In Black and White Aubrey beardsley and franz Kline — strange bedfellows indeed! Beardsley was the turn-of-the-century dandy, the pale, perverse eroticist whose...
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On Art
(February 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Tied to Con Edison When the Impressionists established the primacy of light and color as the basis for their painting, they could hardly have been aware of how far...
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On Art
(January 1967)
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ON ART The art and artifacts of any high civilization????and of some primitive cultures????are generally treasured and coveted. Often, these works become the prizes of war or the pearls of private...
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On Art
(January 1967)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Nothing is Sacred The examples are familiar: Cezanne states that he wants to "do Poussin over after nature"; the Douanier Rousseau, confronting one of Cezanne's...
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The Dali of Our Day
(December 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Dali of Our Day The event, which took place on the balmy afternoon following election day, had been billed as a "Happening" in the ground floor Notions Department of...
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In the American Grain
(November 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow In the American Grain Two paintings. One of them is hardly a masterpiece, however touching it remains as a personal statement. Nor is it by one of the few great...
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Inverting a Ziggurat
(October 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Inverting a Ziggurat Few architectural commissions present the peculiar challenges of a modern museum. While most buildings are constructed to some measure of man and...
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Down and Out in Tahiti
(August 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Down and Out in Tahiti Somerset Maugham was right: Gauguin's was the perfect life for a successful roman d'aventure. It had all the necessary ingredients: radical...
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The Modes of Matisse
(July 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Modes of Matisse What could be more sumptuous or more accommodating than a Matisse interior? Bowls of fruit, bouquets of flowers abound. Nudes, clad in...
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A Roomful of Critics
(June 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow A Roomful of Critics When cities like New York or Milwaukee, which have had difficulties supporting baseball teams, are nonetheless engaged in expensive cultural...
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The Modernity of Cousin Turner
(April 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Modernity of Cousin Turner WHAT ARE we to do with Turner at this late date? I am of two minds about his last works, those fiery abstractions currently...
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Hostage to the Gallery
(March 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Hostage to the Gallery There is a new type of art object now crowding into the galleries. Not quite painting, not precisely sculpture, this new work is a hybrid of...
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The Straddling Man
(January 1966)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow The Straddling Man How confidently Copley's people look out at us over a span of 200 years! A gallery of American originals-shrewd merchants, Boston matrons,...
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Ars Ex Machina
(June 1965)
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ON ART By James K. Mellow Ars Ex Machina Scene i: A ruddy, infernal glow seeps through the darkened room. In the semi-gloom, one perceives a few unlikely shapes: a sphere hanging from the...
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Morbid Arena
(November 1965)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Morbid Arena Edvard munch comes to us with all the credentials of a modern artist. Yet, he was one of the few important masters not wholly committed to the formal...
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Having It Made
(August 1965)
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ON ART By James R. Mellow Having It Made To the casual observer, the American artist has it made. The latest trends in the art world are reported in the daily press; the liveliest "doings'"...
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Happy Aspects of New York
(May 1965)
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Happy Aspects of New York New york proclaimed By V S. Pritchett Photographs by Evelyn Hofer Harcourt, Brace & World. 116 pp. $15. Reviewed by james r. mellow Some men are born New Yorkers: Of...
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An Unfinished Portrait
(April 1965)
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An Unfinished Portrait ANDRE GIDE: HIS LIFE AND WORK By Wallace Fowlie Macmillan. 217 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by JAMES R. MELLOW Formerly Editor, "Arts Magazine," Contributor, "Commonweal" The...
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A Hard Perdurable Life
(January 1965)
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A Hard Perdurable Life BECAUSE I WAS FLESH By Edward Dahlberg New Directions. 234 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by JAMES R. MELLOW Executive Editor, "Arts Magazine" PICTURE, IF you will, Henry...
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The Mist of the Past
(December 1964)
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The Mist of the Past THE HOUSE OF LIFE By Mario Praz Translated by Angus Davidson Oxford. 360 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by JAMES R. MELLOW Executive Editor, "Arts Magazine" Mario Praz is the...
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Living with the Minotaur
(December 1964)
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Living with the Minotaur LIFE WITH PICASSO By Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake McGraw-Hill. 374 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by JAMES R. MELLOW Executive Editor, "Arts Magazine" If lovers do not...
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MELLOW, JAMES W.
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MENDEZ, ANTONIO
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Menendez, Jaime
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MENGES, CONSTANTINE C.
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MENON, B. P.
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Meray, Tibor
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MERCHANT, NORRIS
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Merman, Benjamin
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Merril, Herber M.
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