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Could modern art ever mean so much to so many as Millet or Alma-Tadema had? Museum Director Fiske Kimball was not taking any bets. But in a thoughtful foreword to the show he pointed out that the art of the snob of today is often that of the minority of tomorrow and the majority of the day after tomorrow: "The public, which doesn't know much about art but 'knows what it likes,' actually likes what it knows...
...catalogue foreword. Artist Benton begged off from being judged as an artist. His art, he explained, "is for the most part, as were also the great classical works, illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended. ... I ask then, Chicagoans, that you let the question of how 'good' these paintings are pass in favor of another question: 'How like are they to the things you know, to the experiences you have had in the America in which you live...
Author Jenney gives all credit for her 124-page collaboration to Poet Shelley, who has also supplied the foreword ("Whenever I have tried to compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial...
These are the opening sentences of Gordon Carroll's foreword to History in the Writing-and here are some examples of the extraordinary impression this book seems to be making on the press of the nation...
This confession appeared last week in the foreword to a slim volume titled The American Revolution and Its Influence on World History, published by the Chicago Tribune at $1. Its author: the Tribune's xenophobic editor & publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick, Groton '99, Yale...