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Article: Antiques.(Marsden Hartley)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Of course an over self-conscious straining after a nationalistic form of expression may defeat itself. But this is merely because self-consciousness is almost always a drawback. The self-conscious striving after originality also tends to defeat itself. Yet the fact remains that the greatest work must bear the stamp of originality. In exactly the same way the greatest work must bear the stamp of nationalism. American work must smack of our own soil, mental and moral, no less than physical, or it will have little of permanent value.
Theodore Roosevelt, "Nationalism in Literature and Art," November 16, 1916,Proceedings of the Public Meetings of the American Academy ...