Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thanksgiving) won Mrs. Logan a surprising amount of space in the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935, et seq.). Since then she has appointed herself a champion of academic painting in the U. S., and the fullest explanation of her position to date is Sanity in Art...
...book begins with a preface by mountain-carving Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in which he writes: "Mrs. Logan has said: 'Art is colossal. . . .'" This is followed by a few brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance...
...trying to destroy false gods that have been forced upon us in the museums." These sentiments are heartily seconded in Sanity in Art's ensuing pages by a number of press quotations from Music News, the Elkhart, Ind. Tribune, the Birming ham, N. Y. Press, followed by approving letters from Booth Tarkington, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Senator & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, and Mrs. H. G. Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing...
...paintings are inextricably mixed, but Mrs. Logan says that the commonsensical U. S. public will have no trouble picking the sane art from the "faddist" art...
...Times art editor proceeded to set a trap for the Examiner by carefully painting out Fitts's cigaret before printing it. Sure enough, in its final edition, the Examiner appeared with a similar picture, not credited to any photographer or paper, but simply billed as a view of the victim "taken before he was operated upon." The Examiner's, picture of Fitts was exactly like the Times's in every detail, even to the telltale vanished cigaret. A check on the fact that Fitts actually was holding a cigaret as he went to the operating room came...