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Michael C. D. Macdonald '60 and Michel J. Strauss '59, are organizing the showing, which is tentatively entitled "The Scholar as Collector." Numerous items have already been pledged for exhibit, including works of Picasso, Klee, Roualt, and Durer...
...much material on the subject in the past year and more is forthcoming. Some hardy soul who cares not at all that dealers are finding French art increasingly scarce might try his hand at figuring out what happened to the painter's geist in Germany since the days of Durer and Chranach. It may well turn out to be a tragedy in the best Sophoclean tradition...
...Durer, however, the issues become clear without confusing the matter with a French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...
These engravings possess a "brutality," if it can be called that, which surpasses any graphic intensity the contemporary Italians had to offer. But that graphic quality is the servant of a spirituality and poetry which makes the word brutal a sacrilege. Durer is as intellectual as the Expressionists are emotional, as richly controlled as the Expressionists, by and large, are sporadic. Again; the comparison may be unfair; but the teutonic bond between a Dance of Death by the younger Holbein and a twentieth century variation on the same theme is inevitable...
...Durer is by no means without emotion, but emotion only in the highest sense of the word, a deeply felt compassion without recourse to sentimentality. Busch-Reisinger, these days, is a good place to rediscover the difference between pathos and bathos in the arts, as well as to see a first rate exhibition...