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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most scholarly and influential modern studies: by Nathaniel Schmidt, William Sanday, G. Stanley Hall, Joseph Klausner (a Jew), Shirley Jackson Case, Charles Guignebert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...with a bang. In 1939 a barrage of art books has been aimed at the public taste. Biggest is Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces,* a portable gallery of 144 color reproductions ranging from Giotto to Grant Wood. Most aggressive is Peyton Boswell Jr.'s Modern American Painting,† which is as nationalistic as the Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giotto to Grant Wood | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

More eloquent for the cause of U. S. art than these polemics are the 85 color reproductions of U. S. canvases in Modern American Painting, the 16 in A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, which show that for art popularization nothing can take the place of color except better color. Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giotto to Grant Wood | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Wood's Woman With Plants (see cut, p. 57) was picked by both Craven and Boswell. Because it confines itself by its title, Modern American Painting, in its color reproductions, gives a vivid and telescopic view of the changing U. S. from 1738 to 1939. Biographies of the 68 artists whose work is reproduced help make this book the most complete and authoritative record of the American School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giotto to Grant Wood | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Theory. The failures of Marxism in practice argue fallacies in theory. The first of these, according to Parkes, is the idea that the working class alone can, or will, seize political power. The modern working class and the capitalist class are not independent as were the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy before the French Revolution; they are interdependent parts of the same economic organism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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