View: Art Literature Documents Criticism (1947) (Pavel Tchelitchew)

Condition: covers a little dust-marked and lightly edge-worn. Some spotting and light yellowing to pages, otherwise very good.

Issue of this important American arts magazine. Contents include:

COVER BY PAVEL TCHELITCHEW
A book of Tchelitchew’s drawings, in collotype, is scheduled for spring publication by H. Bittner, edited, with a foreword, by Lincoln Kirstein.

HUMAN ANATOMY AS THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Parker Tyler 7
Second of Mr. Tyler’s essays on the work of Tchelitchew to appear in View, the first being “The Endless Island,” an interpretation of Hide-and-Seek, in Volume II, No. 3. An article by Mr. Tyler, “The Humanism of Abstract Art,” is in a forthcoming issue of Gazette des Beaux Arts.

DEATH IN AMERICA
Marius Bewley 13
A sequel to Mr. Bewley’s “On the American Macabre” (View, Volume V, No. 3).

THE MUSICAL DOGS
Paul Goodman 21
A section from Mr. Goodman’s book, “Kafka’s Prayer,” which the Vanguard Press has announced for May.

MUSIC IS DANGEROUS
Paul Nougé 23
Second and concluding installment of Mr. Nougé’s essay, with whose point of view on music View finds itself in enthusiastic accord.

POEM
Russell Atkins 29
A young Negro poet of Cincinnati, hitherto unpublished.

FOUR PRIMITIVES
30
Poems by Andrew Demarest (New Jersey), Joe Massey (Ohio by way of Texas), Anne Rush (Oklahoma), and Luella H. Carlson (Wisconsin).

DOCUMENTS
33
“Time, Life, and Fortune” by Herbert Marshall McLuhan. Mr. McLuhan teaches at Assumption College, Windsor, Canada. Other critical analyses of his have appeared in Kenyon and Sewanee Reviews.

LITERATURE
38
Reviews by Paul Goodman, Marius Bewley, Hilary Arm, Felix Giovanelli, and Everett McManus.

MUSIC
43
Parker Tyler on the latest concert of John Cage.

ART
44
“Henry Moore” by Leon Kochnitzky. “Dubuffet’s Diablerie” by Robert Goldwater.

REPRODUCTIONS
Pavel Tchelitchew (6,9,10,11), Corrado Cagli (12), Rufino Tamayo (12), David Hare (12), Hans Moller (12), Joseph B. Wertz (16), Barrie Mason (17), David Blythe (18), Anonymous American (18), Garry MacKenzie (20), André Masson (22), Pietro Lazzari (29), Peter Sager (30), Esteban Francés (31), Joan Miro (44), Henry Moore (45), Louis Martinez-Pedro (49).