Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224).

Ever since American artists declared their independence from European models and traditions early in the twentieth century, they have battled to maintain their newly won freedom in studios, art schools, galleries, and museums, and also - to gain support from a frequently bewildered or, at best, indifferent public - in pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, and books. Not only the critics, but painters, sculptors, and architects have fought this polemical war, their weapons being some of the most lucid, penetrating, and biting documents in the history of art.

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