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The Artist and the Ice Age
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 1, 1936 issue

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According to the author, two weeks ago, he quoted and with no little glee, certain remarks which the artist Stephen Spender had recently made about freedom and art. The glee remains and so, for that matter, does the general conviction that art and life are both served best when the artist is allowed to go his frequently perverse way in order that he may come, as he often does, upon truths less likely to be discovered by the most diligent and disciplined of the official seekers. The heretical artist has, in other words, most frequently done his work not because censorships did not exist but because he either defied or eluded them. Sometimes he is bold and sometimes he is sly.

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ARTISTS; SPENDER, Stephen, 1909-1995; FREEDOM & art; ART; CENSORSHIP; DISSENTERS, Artistic
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