Art: Red Plot?

"It makes little difference where one studies the record, whether of surrealism, dadaism, abstractionism, cubism, expressionism or futurism. The evidence of evil design is everywhere...The question is...who has brought down this curse upon us; who has let into our homeland this horde of germ-carrying art vermin?"

Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends—TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a...

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