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Worldview in Painting-Art and Society
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MEYER SCHAPIRO
Worldview in Painting-Art and Society
New York: George Braziller, 1999. 256 pp.; 26 b/w ills. $30
This collection of essays includes two discussions of "Philosophy in Painting" and various accounts, some dating as far back as the 1930s, of art and society. Meyer Schapiro discusses the social functions of art, the future of the arts, the profession of the artist, and the responsibility of the artist. The essays on painting and philosophy provide an erudite and exotic perspective on issues recently much analyzed by Jacques Derrida and his commentators. Both philosophy and painting, Schapiro argues, give us truths about the world. His political …
