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| Exhibition poster © Dallas Guffey 2015 |
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Poster by graphic designer Dallas Guffey for an exhibition of student posters about
historic pencil sharpeners from the P.D. Whitson Collection. Department
of Art, University of Northern Iowa.
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Violette de Mazia, quoted in
Robert Bruce Williams, ed., John Dewey, Recollections (Washington DC:
University Press of America, 1970), p. 9.
[American philosopher John]
Dewey’s observations on art were sometimes characterized by a remarkable
spontaneous insight. On one of his frequent visits to The Barnes Foundation
during Dr. [Albert C.] Barnes and I were looking at the collection with him, he
stopped in front of a [painting by Paul] Cézanne, The Bibemus Quarry, and said with the air of tossing off an
incidental remark, “If you were to explode a bomb in the middle of this
landscape you would have a [painting by Chaim] Soutine.”
