Word: connoisseurship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dali and Gropper. At a symposium on Modern Art some years ago, I heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present tense. Not the least "dangerous" thing about the arts in our time is their demand that we see in them something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions...
...ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator of her father's art collection, that the book on the Frick collection which he was trying to sell was "full of inaccuracies and adds nothing to art connoisseurship...
...some of the money that is gained in this country . . . could occasionally be diverted to the support of young artists, connoisseurship would be serving a social need as well as reflecting a social order...
...them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued at $150,000, Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME...
...arrangements requires the undue stretching of a doubtful point. The true education is free from affectation; the true "gentleman" may well be complete without a discerning palate and opportunity to indulge it. As usual, the point of view rests on a definition. If the word "gentleman" necessarily implies a connoisseurship in mint juleps and if education necessarily depends upon the softening of a certain consonant, it must be admitted that prohibition has handicapped the gentleman and that unpopularity is the inevitable corollary of a college training. An argument must rest upon a premise of generally accepted truth. If these...