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...Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Polaroid land camera, was elected president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences last night. He replaces Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who held the office for seven years...
Author-Critic Lewis Mumford is a hard maa to please. As the nation's most critical sidewalk superintendent, he has long pointed out to modern "builders their mistakes in design and long-range planning. In his big, philosophizing books (The Condition of Man, The Culture of Cities, Technics and Civilization), he is just as ready to point out what he considers the mistakes of history. This week, in the first of a series of Columbia University lectures on art in the machine age, Critic Mumford leveled his sights on soth Century painting...
Picasso is not the only offender, according to Mumford. "The maimed fantasies, the organized frustrations that we see in every comprehensive exhibition of painting today are the evidence of a deeper personal abdication. Pattern and purpose have all but disappeared, along with the person who once, in his own right, embodied them. Man has become an exile in this mechanical world, or even worse, he has become a displaced person...
...reason Mumford gives for modern art's parlous state: "When society is healthy, the artist re-enforces its health; but when it is ailing, he too easily re-enforces its ailments...
Howard E. Hugo, instructor in General Education, will end his lecturers as Wild Mumford Jones, professor of English, er's substitute today, after which Howard or David E. Owen, professor of History, may lecture...