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...much-heralded "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" along with ten other watercolors of the "Dreyfus Cane" by Ben Shahu have arrived at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and will remain on display until October...
After the emotional severity in the "passion" group, the second gallery, that devoted to the Dreyfus case, is relieving. The color is livelier, the faces are illuminated with genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus is not burdened with the martyrdom so often found in literature, and the sketches of the principals in the trial have a delightful vivacity. The impression of Zola is of somewhat alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this...
...chance it has been construed that the show is being given because of the recent reawakening of the Sacco-Vanzetti controversy, the Society wishes to recall that the show was planned and announced last spring in its catalogue, and that the artist's eighty different treatment of the Dreyfus Case is equally stressed...
...reading of that book is a creative act in which no one can stand in our stead, or even collaborate with us. And therefore how many there are who shrink from writing it; how many tasks are undertaken in order to avoid that one! Each happening, the Dreyfus case, the War, supplied fresh excuses to the writers for not deciphering that book?they wished to assure the triumph of right, rebuild the moral unity of the nation, and they had no time to think of literature. . . . But ... art is the most real of all things, the sternest school in life...
...Gorgulov," queried Presiding Judge Dreyfus, "have you anything further to say in your defense...