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Archaeologies of the Future: the Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions.(book review)(Book Review)
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ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: THE DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTIONS
by Fredric Jameson. Verso/480 pp./$35.00 (hb).
Rather than an archaeologist unearthing dry material, Fredric Jameson approaches utopia with the relentless passion of a naturalist trying to breathe life into an extinct creature. Having died out as a social program it appears somewhat artificially only as a genre of science fiction. But Jameson not only wants to revive it from its generic crypt but also restore its sense of immediacy and hold on the future. On the way to this ...
 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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A Lover of Beauty, Guy Pene du Bois Painted His Ideal.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...name of the American painter Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958) is likely to...Sons. The title of the show--Guy Pene du Bois: Painter of Modern Life, which...Maupassant, a family friend, and Guy Pene du Bois was always as much at home in...
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The Whitney Confronts Reality In Excellent Hopper Exhibition.(Culture)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...relief in a perceptive essay by Guy Pene du Bois, no mean painter himself. Hopper...want of pliability, of ease." Pene du Bois wrote those words in 1931, but...apt and unforgettable flourish, Pene du Bois described the engine of Hopper...
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Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper.(Culture)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY)
; ...Avenue, until Sept. 29. Modernish Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958) deserves more than...trailing from our museums. Perhaps Pene du Bois' vexed relationship with modernism...yes-a modernist, sort of. Pene du Bois was curious and knowledgeable about...
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PICTURE BOOKS SHED LIGHT ON LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...New York master Robert Henri, Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958) painted stylized...style called "urban realism," Pene du Bois gave his groupings a unique drama...a park or on a city street. "Guy Pene du Bois: Painter of Modern Life" (Quantuck...
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Gallery chronicle.(New York Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...but Constable's sky paintings speak for themselves. Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958), the American artist, New-York born...In a painting of 1950, called Another Expulsion, Pene du Bois captured the feeling with typical aplomb: a Piccassoid...
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OBITUARIES
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press
; ...Cook Colker. She studied painting under the tutelage of Guy Pene du Bois, who had studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. Du Bois' portrait of Joan is now in the Evansville Museum permanent...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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LOIS SILVER'S MODERNIST ART REVISITS A BYGONE ERA WITH EDGY NOSTALGIA.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...Vuillard, and Americans such as William Glackens and Guy Pene Du Bois, all of whom straddled the 19th-century/20th-century...nut, continues her relentless knitting. Glackens and Du Bois are best known for portraits of brazen women. Painted...
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The Three Gertrudes.(Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertude Stein and Gertie the Dinosaur and 'The American Century, Part I' exhibition ad Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...Masses). Haskell shares Mrs. whitney's admiration for Guy Pene du Bois, whose canvases held up well against the better-known...represented, taking his rightful place on a wall with du Bois and Hopper, just as Aaron Douglas's mural from the...
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Public Murals: The Stamp of the New Deal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Henry Varnum Poor, Boardman Robinson, Stevan Dohanos, Guy Pene du Bois, Rockwell Kent, Philip Guston, William Gropper and...they weren't about to be dictated to by some bearded guy with painty shoe tops. Wendell Jones sketched a magnificent...
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'Gilded' view of an era; Exhibit takes look at women of America's wealthy men.(ARTS)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...is the real subject here. "Her beauty is doubled by a glorifying sheen of atmosphere," Hassam's contemporary Guy Pene du Bois wrote (New York American, March 11, 1912). Yet, she is much less important than the atmospheric light created...
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