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A Modernist Primer
Craven, Thomas | July 23, 1924 issue

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The article presents information on the book "A Primer of Modern Art," by Sheldon Cheney. Not in a long time has one seen a work that promises so much and accomplishes so little. With every intention of writing a primer, the author has condensed the theoretical aspects of art into journalistic enigmas, and has with results that are bewildering and pointless made the appreciation of pictures dependent on a set of popular laboratory formulations. In the first place, his desire to display an unusual acquaintance with names and movements has led him to include everything in the modernist category--painting, sculpture, mobile color, the theater--and to praise nonentities and eccentrics if they happen to conform to European mannerisms.

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PRIMER of Modern Art, A (Book); CHENEY, Sheldon; CURIOSITIES & wonders; PAINTING; SCULPTURE; ART
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