Word: formalists
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some formalist critics do, that the artist have no morals at all, that he create in a vacuum...
Though the American room was closed for refurbishing, and in a plaster-splashed state of disarray, Molotov got a good look at contemporary American abstractions, the kind of thing condemned in the periodic Soviet blasts at "bourgeois, formalist art." Molotov came to a full halt before a painting called The Flying...