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Under the editorial direction of board
member Thornton Wilder (Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright) this three-book series
titled Studies of Meaning in Art includes The
Meaning of Unintelligibility in Modern Art (1934) by Edward E. Rothchild, Plastic Redirections in
Twentieth-Century Painting (1934) by James Johnson Sweeny, and Seurat and the Evolution of ?La
Grande Jatte? (1935) by Daniel Catton Rich. These publications were significant not only for the
scope and quality of their content under Wilder?s direction, but in the cases of both Sweeny and
Catton Rich, these books represent important early work by two figures who went onto play
influential roles in museum, curatorial, and art historical contexts.
Johnson Sweeny went on to be the
first director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Catton Rich later became director of the
Art Institute of Chicago from 1938-1958. Seurat was Catton Rich?s first publication. |
