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More interesting than the foreign demands, however, are the ones from this country that Coolidge traces to developments in the American cultural outlook. He notes a marked increase in interest for the visual arts and music, accompanied by a similar trend away from literature. It is no secret to today's undergraduate that he does not read as much or as widely as his father's generation did, nor that improved recording techniques have mirrored more music appreciation...
...even in this age of specialization. A good sculptor, he believes, should be familiar with the traditions of architecture and painting. Likewise he says "I think architects and planners should learn to paint, to carve, to cast, to work in all phases of design. One aspect of the visual arts is not enough...
...shown on this and the following pages. The U.S. pioneers all employed varying degrees of distortion and/or abstraction. But their similarity stops right there. Seeing the contrasts in their art, few would take them for countrymen, let alone contemporaries. Tobey's Transit, for example, relates to no objective visual experience at all, unless it be that of images swimming in the tight-shut eye. Hartley's German Officer deals with a mood, not a visual image. Davis' Eggbeater beats the eggbeater into unrecognizable shape. Hofmann's Red Trickle celebrates an activity rather than a perception. Dove...
...through all manner of chiaroscuro to a totally blackened screen. Indeed, so prolific are his ideas that some sequences of camera angles and shots speed by too rapidly. And who else would have dared to have Othello's final speech delivered straight upwards by a disservered head? The whole visual treatment, furthermore, is strikingly enhanced by the highly original musical score, featuring a wordless chorus and the forceful clangor of an over-amplified harpsichord...
...committee report was originally supposed to deal not only with the visual arts here, but have relevance to the general problem of teaching and encouraging the visual arts. For this reason the Rockefeller Foundation is paying half the cost...