Discusses the values promoted by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York) in the 1920s, under the domination of Robert Underwood Johnson; describes its role as "upholder of Taste and Beauty in Arts and Letters in America" and its opposition to modernism in the arts; focuses on literature, but mentions the Academy's adherence to the Beaux-Arts tradition and its endorsement of the grand symbolic statuary exemplified by Daniel Chester French; also comments on its publication of attacks on modernism by Cortissoz and other critics after the Armory Show.
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