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...Nazis did in 1937 to express their dissatisfaction with the abstract artistic messages of the early Twentieth Century. Nor should we expose our monuments, in humorist Walt Kelly's words, to anything like the Parisian School of underground poster artists and their credo of "Vive le moustache" or the alterationist defacers of New York's Subway School who have taken it upon themselves to redo Grant's Tomb, for example, with all the skill of "a messy monkey armed with a melting chocolate...

Author: By Evan T. Bart, | Title: Out of the Bronze Age | 1/7/1983 | See Source »

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