Word: beckmann
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...then, within a few short decades, these titans proved wholly ephemeral. Their achievement was wiped out by a couple of dozen scrags with names like Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, Beckmann, Rauschenberg, mouthing their bizarre and (at first) peculiar and unpopular visual dialects. Over their bones rose a new edifice of taste enforcement, even more coercive than the old--the transnational bureaucracy of late modernism, staffed by as pompous a set of dullards as ever infested the shorter corridors of cultural power in 1900, all bombing on about their radical credentials. "The accursed power based on privilege," as Hilaire Belloc wrote...
...expressionist holdings. That in fact was associated with the man who left [St. Louis] and became the director of the MFA. He brought that particular interest with him to the Boston area, and it coincided with interests at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. People like Max Beckmann had shows then, and Kokoschka. So at the Museum School in the late '40s and 1950s there was a strong identification of Boston with that expressionist tradition. But I think after this, as you get into the '60s and certainly the '70s, Boston is as pluralistic as any other place...