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University Daily Kansan Friday, November 10, 1961
Collection of Paintings to Be Shown
By Elaine F. Blaylock
American landscape paintings ranging from nineteenth century art of the Hudson River school to contemporary abstract works will make up an exhibition opening Sunday at the Museum of Art. This group of paintings will be on display until Jan.15.
"Legacy of the Land" is the title of this collection, which is being presented in honor of the Conference of the American Association of Land Grant Colleges and State Universities being held in Kansas City, Nov. 12-16.
THIS SHOW WAS PLANNED to make use of the museum's excellent collection of American landscapes and to give students an opportunity to work with an exhibition, according to Gerald Bernstein, instructor of art history and curator of the art museum.
Students in a seminar in American Landscape Paintings conducted by Mr. Bernstein are helping to prepare the exhibit. They also have written brief biographical sketches of the artists included in the exhibition for the catalogue. In the class are Craig Craven, Stanberry, Mo., senior; Harold Lind, Shawnee Mission graduate student; Karen Brookfield, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Pamela Beezley, Kinsley senior.
THE PAINTINGS WILL be shown in settings that suggest American homes of various periods to help the viewer visualize them in their original settings. Craig Craven executed the settings under the supervision of Mr. Bernstein. Craig has selected such articles as furniture, carpets, wallpaper, house plants, and window shutters to create the proper historical setting.
"View of Old North College," earliest known painting of KU, will be shown in this exhibition. It was painted in 1880 by James Hess who was living in Lawrence at that time.
The first school of American landscape painting was the Hudson River School. Contrasts within this school, Mr. Bernstein explained, are illustrated by the romantic and idealized painting of Thomas Cole as compared to the literal detail found in the work of Victor DeGrailly.
As the pioneers moved westward, painters like Albert Bierstadt recorded the nation's expansion. Bierstadt's "Sunset on The Plains" will be exhibited.
Books in Review
By Roy D. Laird
Assistant Professor of Political Science
TITO: THE MAN WHO DEFIED HITLER AND STALIN, by Fitzroy Maclean, Ballantine Paperback, 75 cents.
Yugoslavia is communist. Therefore, for our State Department to consider selling aircraft to Yugoslavia is "virtually treason." Making this charge to one of the State Department's key policy makers at a recent briefing, a lady reporter concluded that Tito would quickly hand the planes over to the Soviet army. When one takes a Devil view of politics, an understanding of international affairs becomes easy. Men are either good guys or bad guys. Nations are either for us or against us.
REAL MEN ARE NEITHER gods or devils. Josip Broz, Marshal Tito, is at once a good guy, who fought first Hitler and later Stalin with great courage, and a bad guy, who has often dealt ruthlessly with his ideological opponents. Tito is a Communist who is both for us and against us, an idealist dedicated to the principle that capitalism must end, but a national leader who has learned from bitter experience that by far the greatest threat to Yugoslavia lies to the East from Soviet Russia.
In his book, "Tito," Fitzroy Maclean, Member of Parliament, and Churchill's Commander attached to Tito's Partisans during World War II, clearly demonstrates both the strength of Tito's faith These demands forced Yugoslavia to go its own way, to make a and the impossible demands of Stalin in the name of that faith. clean break with the homeland of communism in a way that allows for no forseeable possibility of repair. The book should end once and for all the dispute over whether the Partisans or Mihajlovic's Cetniks were the real fighters against the Nazis — Tito and the Partisans.
IN AN IDEAL WORLD in which morality and not power provided the key to international affairs, the West would repudiate fascist Spain and Communist Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia and Russia would be inseparable political twins. In the world we live in, however, probably the greatest blow yet suffered by the Soviet imperialists has been the defection of Yugoslavia. Western policies that failed to encourage such fragmentations of the Soviet empire would only work to advance communist imperialism.
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INTERESTING EFFECTS can be seen in a painting by Martin J. Heade, who was fascinated by the quality of early morning light, and in one done by Winslow Homer, whose approach was straightforward and objective, giving his paintings drama and dignity.
Finally, the show brings the viewer to the twentieth century with its new opportunities for experimentation. Among the examples of this period are a primitive fantasy by Louis Eilshemius and a sharply contrasting abstract vista by John Noble.
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) — Two University of Texas students paid part of their enrollment fees for this semester from money they earned in summer training with the Marine Corps.
Find Gold in Marine Corps
But it came from a pan instead of Uncle Sam.
Henry McDonald and Ralph Johnson, members of the 13th Rifle Company of the Marine Corps Reserve, took their summer training in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Fallon, Nev.
They found plenty of time to spend on the Walker River and used it to pan for gold. Neither wants to do it fulltime for a living.
Best-Dressed
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI) The Southern Methodist University band can lay a strong claim to being the "best-dressed band in the land."
The wardrobe for the 90-member band includes, besides a regular band uniform, blue blazers, a red-and-white candy-striped blazer, a red blazer, bermuda shorts, a tuxedo, and a red nightgown—for night pep rallies.
They said they had to work about 12 hours to get $5 worth.
Big Fingers Troublesome
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A survey by a ring company showed that more than 300 women here each year call on police emergency squads to remove tight rings from fingers swollen by overweight, pregnancy, arthritis, climatic conditions, vigorous housework and other causes.
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