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Keepers of culture : the art-thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.

An account of the differing approaches of three art critics to the conflict between modern and traditional art in America.
Print Book, English, ©1989
Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, ©1989
History
xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780873383905, 0873383907
20015918
Introduction: traditional versus modern
Kenyon Cox: traditionalist painter and critic
Royal Cortissoz: traditionalist for everyman
Frank Jewett Mather Jr.: the humanist as critic