Word: artlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago collectors of early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...
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...this way or that, but he stands above all of them as a contriver of sheer beauty, as a maker of music in the purest sense. There is no more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility...
...only after one has finished the book and has gained something of a comprehension of Dostoevsky's mind and of his almost artless art, that one can wholly understand Mr. Meier-Graefe's opening lines, and why he consistently calls the great novelist a poet
...York Herald Tribune: ". . . An artless playwright who has read Desire Under the Elms with admiration, but with little profit...