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Sackler also holds temporary exhibits on the ground floor. The current show--the Fredric Wertham collection of abstract art produced during the 1920s and 1930s--offers a striking counter-point to Sackler's permanent collection. Included in the exhibit are a series of paintings by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (F. Scott's wife) that Wertham, a psychiatrist, obtained while he was treating her for schizophrenia...
...Fredric Wertham, in Seduction of the Innocent...
Despite the success of the TV series, which is still being syndicated to this day, Superman had some bad times during the '50s and '60s. For all his superpowers, he proved quite helpless against the onslaughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham, onetime senior psychiatrist for New York City's department of hospitals and author of a widely read anticomics diatribe, Seduction of the Innocent (1953). Though much of Wertham's crusade was a commendable attack on the sadism in crime and horror comics, he denounced Superman before legislative committees on rather dubious political grounds. He attached weighty significance to the derivation...
DEATH REVEALED. Fredric Wertham, 86, author and psychiatrist who crusaded against violence in comic books, movies and television; on Nov. 18; in Kempton, Pa. Wertham, a Munich-born authority on criminal psychology, argued that violence is a product of cultural influences. In his books Seduction of the Innocent (1954) and A Sign for Cain (1966), he contended that violence in the mass media was in part responsible for juvenile delinquency. He called television "a school for violence," and commenting on movies, he wrote, "If I should meet an unruly youngster in a dark alley. I prefer...
...instinct and that "the aim of all life is death," but he later abandoned the idea. Currently, Ethologist Konrad Lorenz insists that aggression and violence are inevitable because they were bred into man by natural selection during prehistoric times. But there is widespread disagreement with this theory. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, for example, considers the Lorenz view "nonsense," calling it "not explanation but rationalization...