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The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, June 18, 1976 - Page 11
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By BERNARD BASKIN
Ernest Barlach's 1914 sculpture, entitled "The Avenger," is one of the works on display at the Pollack Gallery in Toronto in an exhibition erititled "Visionaries of the'20th Century." Barlach was hounded by the Nazis.
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ByJULIANNABORSA
Art doesn't spring forth magically from the imagination or build upon the observation of nature alone. It grows upon art. That is the tenet of the Pollack Gallery since its recent changb in premises to Scollard Street.
The new policy is based on the old: instead of presenting young Canadian artists as Jack Pollack has done for a number of years, he is s e 11 i n g but examples which the new generation can study and aspire to. He is askinjg us to pause and reconsider the revolutionary roots ol^ixi today.
The opening exhibition, called "Visionaries of the 20th Century," includes sculptural works and drawings, concentrated in theme on the human figure and face, of over 30 first and second-rank artists.
T h e sculptures are small in scale; they never overwhelm by size. Yeti even half a century after their execution they still retain their power and excitement.
"As to the public, they are.„nbt to blame. The fault lies with their educators. The sense of beauty and taste for reason are lost," complained the sculptor Auguste Rodin. It might be difficult to understand the furor raised by his statue of the literary giant, Balzac a smaller-than-life study now com-mandingly standing in one corner of the Pollack Gallery.
Ernst Barlach's figure of The Avenger is similarly a strong expression of a man later hounded in the Nazi purge of modem art. Artists were forbidden to paint, brushes were felt to see if they had been used, materials were supplied only to approved artists.
Though Barlach was' not a Jew, his ideas did not conform to Hitler's interpretation of art, and he found his position hopeless.
Among the Jewish artists included in the Pollack show is a group of sculptors who m;et in Paris: Epstein, Lipschitz, Zadkine iand Modigliani. Recognized for his elegant elongated portraits, like the pencil drawing in this show, Modigliani created sculpture which is a lesser known facet of his work. Although it was his ambition to sculpt, because of ilj health and financial difficulties, he was able to work in. the
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medium for only a brief period between 1909 and 1914. The bronze Head of
sculptures of Renoir and Degas. Even if the prices are
a Young GIri is all the prohibitive to many, the more important and pro-   experience of viewing this
V i d e s an interesting comparison to Epstein's stylized Mask of Meam.
h is these less familiar aspects of the artists' works that provide some of the delight in the exhiljition: a small early bronze by ,Calder. Pleds en I'Alr, for example, or Homme aa Chapean, a pencil drawing by Duchamp without his customary mischief.
The show is thoiightful-1y arranged to lead the viewer to explore the differences and similan-ties between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. VVorks on paper by Modigliani and Matisse are placed next to their sculptural pieces. Archipenko's Taming ToriM) is effectively placed beside a Dufy drawing. And there is almost a dialogue between the
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collection is not. It is sensibly scheduled to run for six weeks until the end of June, and the opportunity to see it should not be missed.
The Sanfloweir, By Simon Wiesenthal, Schocken Books.
Simon Wiesenthal is head of the famous Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna which during the past gerifera-tion has brought over 1.100 Nazi criminals to justice. The dramatic capture of Eichmann in Argentina resulted from the information he provided. A resident of Lvov, Poland, he was among the few Jews of the city who survived the concentra-tiori carhps.
Wiesenthal has now written a slender volume that poses a terrifying moral dilemma. It is difficult to know — becaiuse the author doesn't say — how much of the story is autobiographical and how much of it fiction.
' The narrator of The Saiifldwer is a young Jewish inmate of a Polish death camp. The war is still raging and Jews are still being ruthlessly and systematically slaughter-
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. struction by fire of a large building into which the Jewish residents of an entire village had been herded. The soldier, reared as a Catholic, is afraid to die with: his heavy burden of guilt. He begs that the Jew, representative and symbol of the Jewish people grant him absolution.
After listening t^ the patient's story for sev.eral hours — torn between horror and compassion — the Jew walks out of the room withotit uttering a word. Was his action proper? Was it morally right?
The author has asked 32 writers, philosophers, statesmen and theologians — Jewish and non-Jewish — to give their opinion. Their brief views
make Up a fascinating s y m p o is i u m that is appended to the story.
As one might expect the answers and reactions differ widely. Abraham J. Heschel maintains that a; Jew cannot forgive sins committed against others. Herbert Marcuse agrees and suggests that "the easy forgiving of such crimes perpetuates the yery  evil it wants to
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And so it goes — a gairiut of wide-ranging opinions and ideas. This is a provocative, stimulating book that goes to the very heart of a problein that is still very much with us, even after 30 long years.
LEROY IMEIMAN
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