Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist and a Christian, not a Marxist, but I've learned much from Marxism," warned Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Litterature, last night before a discussion meeting on "The Artist and Society" of the John Reed Society in the Leverett House Common Room...
Professor Matthiessen stressed the two Marxist concepts of "art as a reflection of society" and "art as a weapon," pointing out that to Marx and Engels the great artist is the man who can "give the fullest picture of the reality of his time, not a future historical solution of the basic conflict he is describing." Marxists thus are more interested in the functions of art, not the aesthetic values of its form...
Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, will lead a discussion on "The Artist and Society" at the John Reed Society meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Leverett House Common Room...
Professor Matthiessen will open the evening with a short talk on the social implications of art and the relationship of the artist to his society, in which he will evaluate some of the contributions of Marxist critics. Following this, he will direct a discussion from the floor...
Building with Dabs. Cézanne has a lot of bad drawing besides his own to answer for. The 19th Century's conscientious master did more than any other artist to make awkward drawing, dabs, distortion, and the fracturing of space fashionable in the 20th. Glimpsing a solid geometry in nature, Cézanne spent most of his life trying to apply it to art. Seen close up, his later paintings, such as Gardanne (see cut), look like Cubist abstractions and were, in fact, the point at which Cubism first left the world behind...