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It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.
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Royal Cortissoz
Born:
February 10, 1869
Died:
October 17, 1948
(aged 79)
Bio:
Royal Cortissoz was an American art historian and long-time art critic for the New York Herald Tribune from 1891 until his death. During his tenure, he consistently championed traditionalism and decried modernism.
Known for:
Personalities in art (1925)
The Life Of Whitelaw Reid (1921)
Art and common sense (1913)
Guy Pène Du Bois
JOHN LA FARGE A MEMOIR & A STU
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