Garfield County News | 1928-10-12 | Page 12 | New Artistic Era Certain to be the Result of America's Material Activity

new artistic 1 era certain to be the result of americas americans material activity I 1 I 1 by PROF DEVITT DE PARKER university of michigan history shows that periods of high artistic activity usually coincide W with I 1 ith epochs of political Vand and commercial preeminence pre eminence and in into to tile the lat ter we have already come for better or for worse we have left the day of the whole man behind in the growing complexity of civilization the problems of life have hav e become so and so numerous that in order to each min man must apply his whole nature to it a single oi one le of of f them atthe at the cost of integrity of personality losing the wholeness which Is so characteristic of beauty and being only fractions of our possible selves we are loaded with longings and repressions repression and disfigured wit with i h strange inequalities of character mechanism will bill go on its unrepentant int way but play an and art will bring us the freedom which we lack the harmony which chieh we bolit achieve pa through play is accomplished by an exclusion of worry wid work the harmony of art is one of inclusion in which the whole of oui om personalities are called into action but while in all forms form of play and sport it is conceded that america stands the peer of any nation on parth in art if we take the sweep of the last hundred J years rs she has not matt fied the most artistically gifted nations nation of F europe u r 0 p e we are now fast building a tradition an and d a culture of our own the mechanical nature of our civilization hns has created a ii need for art and that secure hold on economic wenith wealth so necessary for artistic vulture culture lin iia been won need and opportunity will combine to make mahe the future of art ar in america immense