I think you should buy them all. In fact buy a bunch of copies and send them to all the people you know. Here's another you can find, maybe. "One-Best-Wayism in Art" also published in the 50s during the period when advanced modernism was entering the popular press and mainstream mass culture. You once said you have Josephine Logan's Book, "Sanity in Art". All those books together, plus as much published criticism as you can find by John Canaday, should give you a basic library of populist anti-art literature. Could be a fun project.
WC --- On Wed, 11/19/08, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Stuart Gallery, Boston > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:34 AM > Judging from the titles of his books, William has concluded > that the author > was a psycho and the books are trash. > > But I think those titles just show that the author was from > another era -- > back when it was acceptable to use plain talk when > discussing high culture. > > Obviously, that era has passed. > > Unfortunately, there's no biographical information > about Theodore Shaw, and I > can't find anything about the Stuart Gallery which > published his many > diatribes. > > Assuming that he had been born around 1900 and then studied > painting in > Boston, he may well have been connected with the Boston > school, including > painters like William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941) who would > later be so > important to the revival of classical realism in our time. > > I wonder why he so ticked off about the Met. > > I'm going to have to order that book. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval > today > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc1k18FjOfjLrnuf5XNRZvTdZ8 > 4i59reI3EFIrC2aFZkx7Pbm/
