David Kaufmann
By David Kaufmann
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Culture Gazing at the Guggenheims
The Guggenheims: A Family History By Irwin Unger and Debi Unger HarperCollins, 530 pages, $29.95. —— By the start of World War I, the Guggenheims had become so prominent that even their pets’ deaths were considered newsworthy. Ninety years later, they are chiefly remembered in the names of foundations and museums. In a heavily detailed…
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Culture The Man Who Couldn’t Escape Being Jewish
Raphael Soyer and the Search For Modern Jewish Art By Samantha Baskind North Carolina University Press, 280 pages, $39.95. * * *| For most of his long career, Raphael Soyer worked hard to avoid being called a “Jewish” artist. Soyer, who died in 1987 in his 88th year, styled himself a “New York painter,” a…
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News The Double Mystery of Creativity and Personality
Although recognized in the late 1950s as a leading abstract expressionist, Philip Guston is probably best-remembered now for the critical drubbing he received in 1970. That fall, he declared his independence from his immediate past by showing large, clumsily drawn and sumptuously painted cartoons of Ku Klux Klansmen. This new turn did not go over…
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