Exhibitions in New York

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Abstract
Each period in the history of art has a tendency to discover certain facets of the work of earlier times to which the generation immediately antecedent paid little heed, or completely disregarded. These “discoveries” by the taste of a generation are perhaps the best, indices of the creative direction in which it is tending. A period's strength, like that of an artist, depends on its ability to break away from the domination of the period which immediately preceded it. For, when a period, again like the individual artist, recognizes its peculiar talent or strength, it is inclined to emphasize this in order to draw the fullest profit from it. Such an emphasis shortly becomes an exaggeration with a concomitant neglect of other vital considerations. Consequently the period following will find its shortest path back to an organic balance of plastic interests through a direct revolt against those expressional features most emphatically stressed by the preceding generation. And its “discoveries” more often than not will be those factors in earlier work which it feels will best medicine the weaknesses of its predecessor's expression.

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