Art Symposium

A symposium on "The Issues of Modern Art" will be held at Dartmouth College from April 29 to May 2, under the provisions of the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation. John Dewey, Max Eastman, Frank Jewett Mather Jr., and Edward F. Rothschild will deliver formal lectures during the four-day program and will also take part in a panel summary and roundtable discussions. The symposium is being arranged by the Department of Art and Archaeology.

John Dewey, professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will deliver the opening address on "The Function of Art in Contemporary Society." The second lecture, by Frank J. Mather Jr., professor emeritus of Art at Princeton University, will deal with "The Old and New Attitudes Towards Art"; the third, by Max Eastman, noted critic, with "Art and Propaganda"; and the fourth, by Edward F. Rothschild, professor of Art at the University of Chicago, with "Pure Art." At a public meeting on May 2, each of the principal speakers will contribute a panel summary.

This year's lecture series is the fourteenth since the start of the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation in 1920. The annual lectures have been made possible by the gift of H. L. Moore '77, a former trustee of the College, in memory of his son, Guernsey Center Moore '04, who died before his graduation.