Art and Common Sense, by Royal Cortissoz
Download a PDF Sample (1.1MB)From TIME magazine, "Sterile Modernism", March 10, 1930:
"Who can name an art critic? An art critic is a public commentator, supposedly invested by virtue of his learning and taste with the right to interpret the esthetic trend to the commonalty, to denounce that which he considers bad and proclaim that which he considers good. In any society pretending to cultivation and beauty, the position of art critic should obviously command renown and respect. Yet who can name an art critic?
"Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur."
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