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Winter 1946 • Vol. VIII No. 1 • Book Reviews |

Moving Towards the Absolute

By Robert Goldwater

The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations by Guillaume Apolliaire. Translated from the French by Lionel Abel. Wittenborn,1913. $1.75.

Plastic Art And Pure by Piet Mondrian. Wittenborn. $2.25

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Art Letter

By Robert Goldwater

Current comment stresses the diversity of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.1 In this selection of fourteen American painters and sculptors one is struck by a variety of […]

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