Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST extensive American commitment to the arts ever undertaken, the Federal Arts Project was born in 1935 when Harry Hopkins included it--with separate Theatre, Art, Writing, and Music Projects--in his Works Progress Administration. Hopkins had two goals in mind: relief for unemployed artists and the development of American culture at a time of national depression--psychological as well as economic...
...despite these problems, the Projects signalled important new directions, distinctly non-elitist directions, for the American arts. Not only did the Theatre Project bring theater to new audiences, but the Art Project brought massive murals to American cities and the Writers Project recorded the lives of "ordinary" Americans. Not only did a galaxy of stars emerge from the Theatre Project, but similar galaxies emerged from other Projects as well--Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison from the Writers Project; Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning from the Art Project...
...Arts Project--its achievements, its triumphs, and particularly its non-elitism--is especially important in light of a shibboleth long popular in certain critical circles. Elitism is held indispensable to artistic accomplishment; as John Simon recently wrote, "there can be neither true culture nor true art without elitism...
...there has recently been a resurgence of interest in the New Deal Arts Projects. The Writers Project interview cited above is contained in an anthology edited by Cambridge writer Ann Banks and scheduled for publication by Knopf later this year; another Writers Project anthology, Such As Us, appeared last year. Free, Adult, Uncensored is a welcome addition to the growing collection. And the nostalgia itself is a welcome reminder that sometimes an approach that rejects elitism can cause art and artists to flourish and grow...
...movie's split personality. This latest Neil Simon-Herbert Ross collaboration is by turns silly and thoughtful, tedious and charming, broad and delicate. It contains some of Simon's best writing as well as his worst: childish jokes about vomiting coexist with wise statements about the art of marriage. So mixed are the returns on California Suite that, if it were an election, one would insist on a recount...