Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
...Modern art and "traditional" art have both been championed for years in such inflated terms and with such agitated voodoo that intelligent men may well be bored with the whole controversy. Most artists are. Supercilious esthetes and professional scoffers being alike discredited, the most promising movement in art criticism is toward a simpler, less pretentious and closer examination of the facts of art. The past fortnight was notable for turning up two clear books of this sort...
Anti-theory. Thesis of Christine Herter. in Defense of Art- is that much contemporary art is a product of theorizing rather than creative activity. She sees the lesser moderns as more or less buffaloed by intellectualizations which were slightly screwy in the first place, and proceeds to punch neat holes in the writings of eminent estheticians...
...takes up Herbert Read, the English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the 14th than of the ist Century, that great artists never wanted to be copyists of nature, but were imaginative and expressive, that...
...Cyrus H. Gordon of Smith College will give the lecture of December 6, on "The Miniature Art of Ancient Mesopotamia...