Word: lavanoux
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...Maurice Lavanoux, the good grey secretary of Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society, gave strong support to that idea. In the U.S., he declared, church-goods houses "have debased the taste of generations of worshipers" by filling churches with mass-produced, painted-plaster "catalogue Virgins." Most parishes, Lavanoux added, "accept this practice because they think it is the normal thing, but the capacity of the average parishioner for accepting good art has been greatly underestimated . . . We need the contemporary artist to help us end the scandal of the trash that is in our churches...
...French delegation, headed by conservative Architect Gaston Bardet, had a far different notion of how the "trash" might be eliminated. The church, Bardet proposed, should draw up a set of rules and regulations governing sacred art. Lavanoux opposed the resolution, saw it voted down. Few of the conferees believed that good religious art could ever be produced by rules...
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