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...disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...
Clear & Teary. Last month the Corcoran put on a show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
Apples & Attraction. The Corcoran induced its visitors to write down what they liked and why. One well-established, if conservative, point of view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...
...three-man professional jury, asked to judge the Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...
...corruption of American liberalism," announced their support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week...