Book Reviews
Winter 1970
Some Light and Much Shadow
Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of the Paintings by A. Bredius. Edited by Horst Gerson. Phaidon Press, $20.00. Rembrandt Paintings by Horst Gerson. Reynal and Company-William Morrow and Company, $39.95. Rembrandt: […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1969
Modern German Art
German Art in the 20th Century by Franz Roh. Translated by Catherine Hutter and edited by Julia Phelps. New York Graphic Society, $30.00. About 140 years ago, when it took […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1968
In Defense of Dufy
Whether the pleasure he has gained for himself be shared or not, whether his work be in concord or contradiction with the tastes of the times, whether it be ahead […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1968
Thesis and Antithesis
Expressionist Watercolors 1905-1920 by Werner Hofmann. Harry N. Abrams, $20.00. Painters of the Bauhaus by Eberhard Roters. Fredrick A. Praeger, $18.50. The German philosopher Theodor Lessing is author of […]
Nonfiction
Autumn/ November 1966
Baudelaire: Art Critic
” … glorifier le culte des images (ma grande, mon unique, ma primitive passion) … “ —From Mon coeur mis à nu To the English-speaking intellectual, Baudelaire, the poet and […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1966
Kokoschka: Modern Old Master
The Vienna in which I grew to manhood was rife with café gossip about the “madman” Oskar Kokoschka, spread by those who still remembered the now world-famous painter as the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1965
Golden Age or Brass?
Creative America by John F. Kennedy and Others. Trident Press, $5.95. The Culture Consumers by Alvin Toffler. St. Martin’s Press, $5.00. The Arts in Society, Edited by Robert N. Wilson. […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1964
Two Austrian Expressionists
It was in 1928, when I was a young student, that I first encountered the works of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele at memorial shows in the Sezession and Hagenbund […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1962
Ernst Barlach
The veneration of the sculptor and printmaker Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) in Central Europe has, so far, not spread much beyond the German-speaking nations. Britain’s Art Council brought a large number […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1961
Lawrence and Pascin
By sheer coincidence the two modern artists who devoted their lives to exploring the mysteries of sex—the writer D. H. Lawrence and the painter Jules Pascin—were both born in 1885 […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1960
The Sad Ballad of Simeon Solomon
It is no proof of genius to have led a so-called “disorderly life”—for all his excesses, Maxwell Bodenheim was only a very minor poet. Camille Pissarro, though he led an […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1960
Epstein’s Three Faces
When Sir Jacob Epstein died in London last August, at the age of seventy-eight, the American press invariably concentrated on the external and ephemeral features of his story: the scandals […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1957
Art Letter: Dr. Picasso and The Toothache
Oh to be twenty again, and to come upon the gigantic Picasso retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art with virgin and unprejudiced eyes! There would be three hundred and […]