Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Painting. As aware of European styles as ever before, U. S. artists last year showed a maturing independence of them. Nineteen thirty-seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking...
...Biddle. In general, museums have not only loosened up in this respect, but have begun to spend less money on the acquisition of sacred masterpieces and more on a job just as essential to the artist: public art education. Since 1932, for one example, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, besides covering brilliantly every present-day trend in art, has circulated 43 traveling, exhibitions at rentals of from $15 to $500 each for 448 showings throughout...
...were the biennial show of the Corcoran Art Gallery in April, the U. S. room at the Carnegie International, the more select and sparkling show of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum in November, and the even more select exhibition of "Paintings for Paris" which the Museum of Modern Art put on display during November and December-paintings by 36 U. S. artists chosen to be among those whose work the Museum plans to take to Paris this spring for the first big exhibition of U. S. painting ever held in Europe...
...contract with C. I. O. As President Roosevelt was being elected for a second term and preparing to unlimber his Supreme Court reorganization plan, an equally vivid exposition of Our Constitution and the Court was appropriately made available. Both pamphlets were issues of Building America, "a photographic magazine of modern problems," pioneer publication in a trend toward placing the fresh stuff of life in the schools for study. This relatively little known magazine last week produced its 19th issue. The topic, as timely as the agriculture bills now under debate in House and Senate: Our Farmers...
...Curriculum Study, whose 900 members include some of the nation's top-rank educators. It is partly supported by the Lincoln School of Columbia's Teachers College, until this year had a staff of WPA researchers. Claiming to be impartial, scientific, it presents the problems of modern civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues a year, each dealing with a particular problem...