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""Are Things That Bad?""
No full textHartford's book is a ""slashing attack on modern art."" He ""draws heavily from other writers, notably Leo Tolstoy and John Dewey…"" He blames the artist-rebels for ""influencing the Supreme Court to be tolerant of disloyalty to the government and intolerant of prayer in school."
""Comment: 'I am not eccentric…'""
No full text""I am not eccentric--I am concentric."" -- Surrealist painter Salvador Dali
""Salvador Dali said in New York …""
No full text""Pompie"" combines pop art with op art, or popular art with optical illusion art. The result is a ""completely illusionistic, 3-dimensional"" work. When asked how he compared to the old masters, he replied ""I am a very bad painter, but in comparison with the artists living today, I am the best. After Dali, Picasso is best."
""The Lyons Den… Salvador Dali brought El Cordobes …""
No full text""Salvador Dali brought El Cordobes, the fabulous bullfighter to El Morocco yesterday."
""This Venus Has Drawers""
No full textDali's Venus will be different. It will have drawers that really put out-- from her bosom, stomach, back and knees. Dali says his Venus is related to the theory of psychologists who discovered ""for the first time, the mind, opening every drawer in the body to penetrate the mind."
""Venus by Dali To Be Different: With Drawers""
No full textDali's Venus will be different. It will have drawers that really put out-- from her bosom, stomach, back and knees
""Art Collection Lures Sears Crowds""
No full textLarge crowds came to see the collection of 300 selected oils, water colors, pastels, lithographs and etchings. Prices ranged from 25,000. Dali's original oil painting, ""Mystical Rose Madonna"" is valued at $25,000. A highlight were 14 paintings by Streeter Blair who works in the primitive style
""At the Fair: Book Hung in Washline Style""
No full text""The Apocalypse"" is not bound. Its 150 parchment pages in plastic cover hang from wires. It rests under a glass dome in a corner of a room in the Pavilion of Paris. When bound, the book will weigh 460 lbs and is valued at $1 million. It is drawing crowds of 5,000 a day for over a month
""Dali Decorated""
No full textDali was awarded the Great Cross of Isabella the Catholic, in connection with the civil war anniversary
""Art Today: Fact And Fantasy"" p. 12.
No full textHartford's book is a new indictment against art today. He states that ""I am tired of being treated condescendingly when I object to some of what is considered as part of what we call art."" He says that Picasso's work ""has had the effect of wiping out almost all the gains that have been made during the last 500 years."