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Brenner, Anita | February 14, 1934 issue

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The article focuses on the exhibition of theater art now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lee Simonson means to be funny in prefacing the catalogue of the exhibition with the statement that now that "art has been successfully divorced from use, beauty from subject matter, and the aesthetic emotion disentangled from the extraneous emotions that once created heroes, heavens, and hells," the public had better be warned that stage designing has usually been done by people "content to be necessary craftsmen, who rarely needed as an incentive the conviction that they were producing a work of art or contributing to the development of art history." There are two kinds of artists, he continues, "art-artists" and plain ordinary working artists.

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EXHIBITIONS; PERFORMING arts; ART museums; EXHIBITION catalogs; ARTISTS; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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