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In the plastic arts, the laws of form and the criteria of beauty have been swept aside by the futurists, cubists, vorticists, tactilists, and other aesthetic Bolsheviki.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Beck condemns the rejection of aesthetic standards in the visual arts.

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