Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denigrate the success and poison the esteem of a wide audience for a man whose earthy and forceful works do not fall into the critic's category of approved art constitutes the sourest of gripes. For him to state that,every self-respecting art historian since 1965 would bolster his argument against Benton is ridiculous...
...course, an appropriate time for a revisionist look at a nation's beginnings. Two recent books became bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel...
...newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...
Dabney attacked Vidal mainly for his characterization of Washington as variously having a "cold, serpent's nature," casting a "serpent's glance" and employing "serpentine cunning." No major historian or biographer of Washington has ever before found any such reptilian element in Washington's personality, Dabney contended...
Westernization has eroded much of the religious basis of African art, but as an art historian. Nigerian visiting lecturer Babatunde Lawal accepts the inevitability of this change and remains interested in the evolution of art forms today...