Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present Taste Judges Past...
...order that his experience of art may become a part of the equipment with which he is to establish a sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic habit which separates past and present and ignores their reciprocal relationship. He wants taste in the present tense, in the sense implied by Lionello Venturl's remark, "the history of criticism teaches that the critic has need of a present taste to direct his judgment even upon past art . . . the intuitive consciousness...
...Must Not Live on Past Reputation...
...artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely for the museum, a rarified preciousness." If the layman is to meet the artist half way, we must include among the scholars, the research experts, the technicians on our faculties, men who can bring past and present into meaningful relationship, restore to past works of art their lost context and meaning, relate art to the common run of experience, override the compartments we have built for convenience, recognize the present as a legitimale subject for investigation, and cultivate in themselves and their students an intellectually...
...work which students have expressed to me, leads me to suppose that he has that rare kind of usefulness which I have described; that his teaching at Harvard has in a very real sense contributed to the necessary task of facing the present with whatever intellectual equipment both past and present can provide; and that Harvard cannot afford to lose...