Word: shahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn affirmed last night in the fifth Charles Eliot Norton lecture that there could be some fundamental basis for evaluating...
...Shahn emphasized that a distinction must be drawn between the universal value of truth and the local values induced in artists by our particular culture...
...Shahn, did not, however, criticize the necessity for conservative artistic elements, which "keep the treasure of the past." He emphasized that the "visionary artists" and the conservatives must reach mutual rapport and balance...
...lecturer backed his criticism of conformity by asserting that conforming artists are forgotten or ignored. "It is always in the future that the course of art lies," stated Shahn. He wondered if the "weeping face is to become a trenchant line...
...Shahn analyzed the modern spirit of conformity as a "retreat from controversiality," and satired its pervasive influence: "We are the organization man, we cannot create something better than that which was before ... I don't give a damn about my peer group and don't believe in satistical man or Riesman...