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An Aesthetic Dish
Craven, Thomas | September 26, 1934 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Plastic Redirections in 20th Century Painting," by James Johnson Sweeney. In this pretentious tract Sweeney undertakes to analyze the abstract elements of modern painting front the collapse of impressionism to the ultimate absurdities of sur-realism. He uses the aesthetic slang of the professors of pure art with exceptional ease, and has every confidence that his felicitous gabble about plasticity and architectonics has a direct bearing on the meaning and purpose of art. It might, indeed, have a very intimate bearing on one side of art if he were not committed to the theory that design is essentially a manifestation of structural eccentricity.

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PLASTIC Redirections in 20th Century Painting (Book); BOOKS; SWEENEY, James Johnson; AUTHORS; PAINTING; IMPRESSIONISM (Art)
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