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pst.000020203283-04	nan	The Dial  v.74 Jan.-Jun	1923		.txt	text/plain	43239	1877	69	One is almost tempted to accuse Mr Fisher of faulty judgement; and yet it does not seem wholly credible that a publisher sufficiently inter- ested to undertake so daring and specialized a series of art books, could be so ignorant of the relative merits of present-day American painters, and so unfamiliar with the manifestations of modern aes- thetic research, as to believe that the artists selected for this Series have as yet attained results which could possibly be classed, either aesthetically, theoretically, or technically, in the foremost rank of American graphic endeavour. IN writing the summary of modern art, I shall present the sub- ject in three divisions: the relation of painting to contemporary life; its affiliation with the great tradition; and its individual ten- dencies and deviations.	cache/pst.000020203283-04.txt	txt/pst.000020203283-04.txt