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...WEEK END BOOK OF GHOST STORIES (280 pp.)-Edited by Hereward Car-rington-Washburn...
...color is beyond me. Picasso was bad enough, but this is really the limit! Pittsburgh has long been noted for its smoky atmosphere, and I would not be a bit surprised if the soot coming out of its innumerable chimneys has finally obscured the judgment of Museum Director Gordon Washburn and other members of the jury responsible for this pitiful exhibition...
Carnegie's traditional claim of being a cross section of current trends. For Director Washburn is a partisan of abstract art, and some 200 of his selections are more rather than less abstract...
...Washburn asserts, somewhat defiantly, that his favorite contemporary school is "the natural language of our century . . . Any other form of artistic communication must actually be contrary to the compulsions of the age itself, whose strong currents cannot be stayed." Swimming with the tide, the Carnegie jury gave all six prizes to more-or-less-abstract paintings...
...invent the language of modern art. Their followers have developed an impressive number of dialects. Although it is hard to hear the voices of today's quieter artists above the abstractionists' hue & cry, it seems likely that the noise will subside in time. As Carnegie Director Washburn puts it: "The 1952 International gives the impression of looking forward into the future. But it is actually of its own time, the year...