Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh ﻿to Jacques Barzun

Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Jacques Barzun

dc.contributor.author	Leigh, Robert Devore
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-02T18:58:46Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-02T18:58:46Z
dc.date.issued	1936-03-27
dc.description.abstract	Correspondence between Jacques Barzun and Bennington College President Robert Devore Leigh regarding Barzun's participation in The Art that Pays, a series of discussions held at Bennington College in April and May of 1936. The intent of the series was to analyze contemporary popular arts "which have developed from the modern methods of machine reproduction and the resulting cheap, widespread distribution through such agencies as the movies, the radio and the power press...these arts will inevitably seen in comparison with the great or classic traditional art in each field and with the experimental contemporary forms discussed four years ago" in the 1933 symposium on Modernism in the Arts.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11209/7437
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.title	Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Jacques Barzun	en_US

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