Word: critism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eloquence has the unhappy effect of making one think that the book communicates more than it does; to "explain" the Greeks, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Renoir, Picasso forces a certain glibness, even what seems like a comparatively limited aspect of art history. For if he enlarges the context of his critism perhaps too ambitiously, although on the surface and to the layman, the result is entirely happy...
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