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June 7, 1943
Mr. Edward Alden Jewell
Art Editor
New York Times
229 West 43 Street
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Jewell:
To the artist, the workings of the critical mind is one of life’s mysteries. That is…
Contributor:
Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko
Places:
Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1943
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On the other side of the poem there is an orchard,
and in the orchard, a house with a roof of straw,
and three pine trees,
three watchmen who never speak, standing guard.
On the other side of the…
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Rokhl Korn
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1962
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In considering Sartre’s conception of the Jew and his relation to anti-Semitism we must not forget that Reflections on the Jewish Question (published by Schocken as Anti-Semite and Jew) was written…
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Harold Rosenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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Aryeh Judah Leib of Trebitsch
Places:
Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1713
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“The tragic element in Shostakovich’s worldview” is the subject of longstanding debate. Was it a prophetic dream of Soviet Jewry, the spirit of which weighed on Shostakovich even in his youth? His…
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Leonid Girshovich
Date:
1998
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Jonathan:I know you do. It cracks me up that you do; it amuses me. You know, up till like eight or nine years ago, let’s not forget, I was painting apartments for a living. Apartments. Walls. Rooms. I…
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Donald Margulies
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Photographer Unknown
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
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Maximilian Syrkin
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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The People’s Art College in Vitebsk, fulfilling the needs of the whole Western Land, is a ripe necessity, especially since our Revolutionary time compels us with unusual force to undertake the…
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Marc Chagall
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian Empire
(Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1918
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Marcel Janco
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Zurich, Switzerland
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1919