Benton 's constant diatribes against modern art , moreover , was his condemnation of the Alfred Stieglitz circle as "an intellectually diseased lot , victims of sickly rationalization , psychic inversions , and God-awful self-cultivations HYPERLINK "http /www .questia .com /PM .qst ?a o d 3 ' In place of European modernism , Benton offered a realistic art that celebrated the values of rural America . He urged his students to travel through the United States , and often did so himself , to discover the local color of native...











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