Sunday, May 26, 1957
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Picked by Its New Director,
These Six Works Typify the Present Collections
And Their Significance
(Continued from Page 6) The lithograph by the great
taught during the last four years Mexican artist, Jose Clemente
Orozco, is one of many fine prints
ments on contemporary culture. by American and European artists
menta onaontempnurpary ltre, in the collection. The strong con-
While painted in Europe and ten tat flgtaddrteal
years ago, with the particularly trasts of light and dark, the sil-
Teutonic flavor characteristic of houettes ficak on white, and
German expressionism, it seems the simplification of forms all
equally valid in relation to our contribute to the sense of move-
own country and our own time. ment and vitality.
The drawing by Alexander Cald-
er is an early work of one of the CONTRAST to the Orozco. or
ablest American sculptors, an art- the Calder, the print by the 18th
ist who, in his mobiles, introduced century Japanese artist Suzuki
a new and dynamic experience into Rarunobu un ifs more lyrical use
the visual world. This dring of line, reflects a detached, orien-
wcombnes a wisica1 sesse tai tranquility and calm. This is
humor (which he shares with only ons of a ociis of fine Jopao-
Steinberg, Steig, Thurber a n dolyoefasrisffneJp -
Steerg m Tusrs i 0ud ese prints in the collections which
ra :; othRier humorist-ill . ao s of oui
time) with a linear sensitivity symbolizes the small but increas-
swhich is characteristic of Calder. i ly sinificant roup of objects
- -representing the art oft the Far
'HE SCULPTURE by Jacques East.
Lipchitz is, like the Beckmais Tse 'c Iitnraul Cy trs
-neat Fi eineh painter Paul Ce:zanne
the work of a European artist who, is one of the cornerstones on which
trinsplsnting himself to a new en- the whole modern movement in
vironmient, has made a significant art still rests. While not a great
contribution to the American rarity in the sense that some
scene. While essentially abstract hiundred copies of the print exist),
in form, the piece retains a strong this print rses aie a sense of the
sense of humanity and conveys a monumentality of the artist's
mood of joy, of exaltation, which work its architectural quality, the
is sisggesterd in the title, appminsS. expression of tbs sodimensionality.
. Iappiness (above)
Sul i HIliarmssob
A Woma aniid ai Ch'Iild
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(Continued from Page 5) discussing the situation with her,
GME CRITICS of drug therapy he prescribed one of the new
S. tranquilizing drugs Our friend
maintain that the tranquilizers toa pill that atroonend
are effective only because mentally hen he hsban ca n e hoe asnhe
ill people are very suggestible and poppe one into his mouth, That
that they are influenced by being evesning everything moa tne and
told that the drugs do help, dandy for the couple For two
This is extremely unlikely to be weeks they took the pills and all
the whole explanation for, as Dr. was well,
Miller puts it: "Schizophrenics Then one day the wife became
aren't helped by deception." concerned over the large amount
Tranquilizers are more than a of money her husband was spend-
fad. Most doctors agree that the ing on hi-fl records. Knowing that
drugs have won a permanent place if she had too much peace of mind
in the treatment of mental and she couldn't give her husband a
emotional disorders, piece of her mind, she laid off the
As the use of tranquilizers be- tranquilizer. That night she told
comes snore widespread, they exert her husband what she thought of
a growing influence on our society. his record-buying spree. Next day
After the first flush of surprise and they returned to the tranquilizer
pleasure at the frequent effective- and everything ran smoothly
ness of the tranquilizers, doctors again.
are beginning to wonder just where A true story? Yes. Amusing?
all this will lead us. Perhaps. Frightening? Definitely,
In the next month one out of for here we are faced with a situa-
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a tranquilizer. Among them will be ley's Brave New World where
an Ann Arbor housewife, peoples' emotions can be carefully
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AST YEAR she was having
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