Volume 2, Number 9 · June 11, 1964
Art and Society Again
By Francis Haskell
Art, Artists and Society
by Geraldine Pelles
Prentice-Hall, 192 pp., $5.00
Bohemian versus Bourgeois
by César Graña
Basic Books, 220 pp., $5.95
The divorce between 'Art' and 'Society,' a couple, so it seems, blissfully (if sometimes stormily) married for as far back as anyone can remember was first discussed in the second half of the eighteenth century and finally promulgated a hundred years later: recent attempts at reconciliation are not wholly convincing despite the fervor they engender. Quite soon after the first signs of estrangement the analysis of its causes and the charting of its development became a familiar occupation. Here are two more examples of this type of study.
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