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...more than 20 years ago, ciritcs hotly debated the acceptance of abstract art. Meyer Schapiro recalls those days in his collection of essays in Modern Art--19th and 20th Centuries. Schapiro asks three questions in particular: one, why do modern artists no longer consider nature the ideal model of harmony? Two, what has replaced it? And three, what has been the result of this change in emphasis...
...answer these questions, Schapiro discusses the social forces and the reactions to modern art that have influenced the artistic personality. Most significantly, the modern artist does not use reality as a source of inspiration but instead finds it constraining or destructive. To escape the confines of reality, the modern artist has abandoned the recognizable objects that limit the artistic imagination...
Nancy Hanks, L.H.D., former chairman, National Endowment for the Arts. Meyer Schapiro, L.H.D., scholar. Gershom Scholem, D.D., philosopher...
...Mission. Britain's leading specialist in Soviet literature, Max Hayward, points out that "Solzhenitsyn is already a fully formed, great writer who has completed many major works in Russia. Exile is hardly likely to affect him now as a writer." Leonard Schapiro of the London School of Economics adds that "even if he is cut off from the living speech of Russia, he is now engaged in writing historical works, and there is no doubt that he has a tremendous gift of bringing history alive that is denied to us mere historians...
Steven Mindich, BAD publisher, filed in Middlesex Court last Friday against Chuck Fager, Charlie McCollum, Laura Schapiro, Paul Solman and Bob Rotner of the Phoenix staff to enjoin against the use of the name "Phoenix" on any new publication. At a hearing this morning at 9:30 it will be decided if the use of the Phoenix format is also subject to enjoinment...