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Art

(from Civilization in The United States)

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Art

Di: Walter Pach
Letto da: Eleesha Lewis
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In Art, painter, critic, and modern-art advocate Walter Pach examines the uneasy state of American visual culture in the early twentieth century.

Pach argues that wealthy collectors and museums too often treat art as a prestige commodity, pouring money into established European masterpieces while offering far less support to living artists. At the same time, many American painters and sculptors remain trapped in academic imitation, reproducing inherited styles rather than responding honestly to the energy of modern American life.

Yet Pach finds signs of a more authentic national aesthetic in unexpected places. Steel bridges, skyscrapers, machines, and everyday industrial objects achieve beauty precisely because their forms follow function. In these practical creations, he sees evidence that American society already possesses genuine artistic instinct—even if it does not yet recognize it as art.

Originally published in the influential 1922 anthology Civilization in the United States, Art is a provocative critique of museums, patronage, modernism, commercial taste, and the search for an artistic identity suited to the modern age.

Narrated by Eleesha Lewis.
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