Volume 1, Number 7 · November 28, 1963
Lives of the Painters
By Meyer Schapiro
Born Under Saturn
by Rudolf Wittkower, by Margot Wittkower
Random House, 344, 89 illus. pp., $7.50
In popular opinion and to the psychoanalyst artists are a special class of human beings with psychological peculiarities connected with their calling. Have they become artists because of these traits or have they acquired these traits from their practice of art? Are these peculiarities universal or do they arise from modern circumstances, from the aims of art in our society and the recently developed social situation? Is the current conception of The Artist perhaps only a stereotype based on a few painters whose strange lives have impressed public imagination? Or does it represent an ideology created by the artists, a self-picture that sets them apart and justifies certain liberties and demands?
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