Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campbell began, "unharnessed and unbridled art, is the beautiful, the combination of beauty and truth revealed through an individual's vision. This combination of beauty and truth is of the greatest merit in making advertising artistic. There is no beauty in a baked bean, but the right man, advertiser or artist, can make an artistic label, even for beans...
Alfred E. Stearns, Principal, Phillips Andover Academy: "The fads and frills that now cumber our school curriculum make little appeal to a teacher of character, culture and vision. Our country needs?not better artisans, mechanics, bookkeepers and business men ? but better and more intelligent citizens. . . . The great problems of today, common not only to this country but to the world, are chiefly human, not economic...
...whole history of the vision of those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows...
...both of them, of course, naked) for the first time. But they had both ruined that moment by hypocrisy and shame, and the life in her soul had been killed. With the daughter he is slightly more successful. She begins to see the vision, with him, of a world transformed by love, divested of sham, in which everyone sees behind the cloak of the actual to the reality of the spirit, and in which minds commerce freely with each other. That is what he meant by love-a marriage of the spirit, in which one individual for a long...
...valuable as it is claimed? Certainly they have had a distinct influence on modern art. But Clive Bell, one of the sanest of modern critics, says that he intends "to keep his head" about Negro art. He maintains that they show taste and skill, but not profundity of vision, and that they lack originality, duplicating without question the conventions of their predecessors for generation after generation. In other words, the Negro art, which has been too much ignored, is now in danger of being equally overpraised...