Hardware Display

Back from a trip to Rome and the classical treasures of the past, Director Francis Henry Taylor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art had a few reflections on the subject of modern art. Wrote Taylor in the Art Digest:

"Perhaps the most conspicuous quality of contemporary art is the extreme loneliness of its author which it reflects. His divorce from society . . . has become complete. To visit any one of a score of recent exhibitions leaves the impression one has at looking into the brilliantly illuminated window of a hardware store on a cold winter's night. There we see row upon row of precision instruments, circular saws arranged in geometric patterns, and pneumatic tools wreathed in coils of electric cable; each item, however, is inert and impotent unless it is plugged into the wall to receive the impulse of some source of unseen power. The spectacle is exciting, but it is unrewarding and frustrating . . . The answer lies in our hearts rather than our intellects. The artist. . . if he chooses to retain his stature as prophet, must reassert his belief in man."

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