| The crucial years of the Depression, as
they are brought into historical focus, increasingly emerge as the decisive
decade for American art, if not for American culture in general For it was
during this decade that many of the conflicts which had blocked the progress of
American art in the past came to a head and sometimes boiled over. Janus-faced,
the thirties look backward, sometimes as far as the Renaissance; and at the same
time forward, as far as the present and beyond. It was the moment when artists,
like Thomas Hart Benton, who wished to turn back the clock to regain the virtues
of simpler times came into direct conflict with others, like Stuart Davis and
Frank Lloyd Wright, who were ready to come to terms with the Machine Age and to
deal with its consequences. America in the thirties was changing rapidly. In many areas A. reactionary B. consistent C. dynamic D. melancholic 更多"Passage Four The crucial "的相关试题:我来回答: 提交
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