Friday, May 3, 2024

Three Dimensional Lyricism - II

Pablo Picasso
Seated Satyr
1964
glass
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York

attributed to Orléans Manufactory
Abduction of Proserpine
ca. 1760-70
soft-paste porcelain
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Giuseppe Mazzuoli
A Nereid
ca. 1705-1715
marble
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giuseppe Mazza
Bust of Diana
ca. 1692-93
marble
Art Institute of Chicago

Wilhelm Matthiä
Crouching Venus
(derived from antique models)
1853-57
marble
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Joseph-Charles Marin
Bacchante
ca. 1800
terracotta
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg
 Prima Ballerina Galina Ulanova
ca. 1950
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

attributed to Giovanni Battista Locatelli
The Dancer Baccelli,
mistress of the 3rd Duke of Dorset

1778
plaster
National Trust, Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent

attributed to Giovanni Battista Locatelli
The Dancer Baccelli,
mistress of the 3rd Duke of Dorset
(detail)
1778
plaster
National Trust, Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent

Jean-Louis Lemoyne
La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
1739-40
marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Chauncey Bradley Ives
Pandora
1864
marble
Detroit Institute of Arts

Anonymous Italian Artist
Four Cherub Heads
(crèche fragment)
18th century
painted plaster
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Winter
ca. 1700-1720
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Italian Artist
Venus
ca. 1580-90
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Hercules Pomarius
ca. 1490-1510
bronze
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Malvina Hoffman
Bacchanal
ca. 1925
bronze
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Selected Lyrics, by Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Co.

These poems will be familiar to many who read the standard magazines and the women's periodicals in which they have been widely published.  A book so filled with sound sense and bright ideas should be easier to read than this one.  One difficulty is with the poet's untrained ear.

Prophet of a Nameless God, by Joseph Kinmont Hart. Harold Vinal (publisher)

As a theological or philosophical modern interpretation of the biblical story of Elijah, this book may have value – we do not pretend to say.  But we are fairly sure that as a poem it has none; it turns the grand old tale, so briefly told in the Books of the Kings, into 178 pages of futile wordiness.

–  from Brief Notices, anonymously printed in Poetry, May 1928