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...Shahn described the ideal program of the life of a young artist last night in the last of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures. The object of this program is the production of an educated, cultured and integrated...
...Shahn used a series of exhortations in describing how an artist should obtain education and culture. "Read everything--the Bible, Hume, Pogo--but not the art reviews. Paint and paint, draw and draw on any smooth surface; the margins of books are excellent. Go visit Paris, Madrid, Rome, Ravenna, Padua and stand alone in the Sainte Chapelle...
...Shahn will lecture "On Non-Conformity" tonight at 8:30 in New Lecture Hall, the fourth in a series of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures. The artist has entitled the series "Idea and Image...
Several other values of our culture which Shahn claims can be harmful to art are "the idea of achievement without effort, and faith in know...
Science is a third modern influence which might have a bad effect on art. Shahn disclaimed "the present tendency of some to borrow glory and value by a self-association with science...