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Article: Weekly Standard: Jonathan Weinberg on the Nation. (Books).(Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001)
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Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001. Edited by Peter G. Meyer. Introduction by Arthur C. Danto. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002. 532 pages, $20.
The nation was launched in 1865 with seven objectives. The first six concerned the political and economic state of a country emerging from the devastation of civil war. Almost as an afterthought came the seventh: "Sound and impartial criticism of books and works of art." The connection between the goals of good government and encouraging the arts must have seemed self-evident-there was no justification given for the decision to include cultural reviews. And so from its very ...