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Regionalist radio: Thomas Hart Benton on Art for Your Sake.(Cover story)
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The Art Bulletin
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March 1, 2008
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A remarkably high percentage of work by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton depicts musical performance, instruments, singing, and clapping. An even larger group takes as its subject the production of sound in nonmusical contexts, by way of meteorological phenomena, sound-receiving and -transmitting technology, discharging guns, neighing wild horses and other animal cries, boisterously revivalist religious services, feats of manual and mechanized labor, chugging trains and steamboats, objects falling and bodies bumping, filibustering politicians, and miscellaneous historical incidents (Figs. 1, 8, 9). This sonic litany suggests that the artist considered sound itself ...
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