{"id":107360,"date":"2017-02-03T08:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107360"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:20:01","slug":"the-ascending-strings-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/the-ascending-strings-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascending Strings, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107361\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2a5_1654250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107361\" class=\"wp-image-107361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2a5_1654250.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2a5_1654250.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2a5_1654250-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2a5_1654250-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augusta Savage presents a model of \u201cThe Harp\u201d to Grover Whalen, the organizer of the World\u2019s Fair. Photo: New York Public Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you tired of fellow feeling? Have you had it up to here with all this talk about \u201cwalking a mile in another person\u2019s shoes\u201d and \u201cunderstanding the suffering of others\u201d? You probably don\u2019t have many friends, do you? And yet there\u2019s a place in this world for you. A new book by the psychologist Paul Bloom argues so steadfastly against empathy that its title is <em>Against Empathy<\/em>. And his theory is not so uncaring as that title suggests: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21715634-moral-psychologist-decries-culture-identifying-others-expense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People are bingeing on a sentiment that does not, on balance, make the world a better place<\/a>. Empathy is \u2018sugary soda, tempting and delicious and bad for us.\u2019 In its stead, Mr. Bloom prescribes a nutritious diet of reason, compassion, and self-control \u2026 His complaint is with empathy defined as feeling what someone else feels. Though philosophers at least as far back as Adam Smith have held it up as a virtue, Mr. Bloom says it is a dubious moral guide. Empathy is biased: people tend to feel for those who look like themselves. It is limited in scope, often focusing attention on the one at the expense of the many, or on short-term rather than long-term consequences. It can incite hatred and violence \u2026 It is innumerate, blind to statistics and to the costs of saccharine indulgence.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Augusta Savage was the most important black woman sculptor of the twentieth century, Keisha N. Blain writes, but she\u2019s tragically uncelebrated now: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.com\/the-most-important-black-woman-sculptor-of-the-20th-century-deserves-more-recognition-af0ed7084bb1#.k7ta40pey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like other key figures of the 1920s such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Savage skillfully challenged negative images and stereotypical depictions of black people<\/a>. One of her largest commissions, for instance, was a sculpture for the World\u2019s Fair of 1939, inspired by \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing,\u2019 a song often described as the black national anthem. Also known as the \u2018The Harp,\u2019 it depicted black singers as the ascending strings of that instrument. Regrettably, it was destroyed when the fairgrounds were torn down \u2026 The racial climate at the time hampered wider recognition of her work. Savage won a prestigious scholarship at a summer arts program at the Fontainebleau School of the Fine Arts outside of Paris in 1923, for instance, but the offer was withdrawn when the school discovered that she was black. Despite her efforts\u200a\u2014\u200ashe filed a complaint with the Ethical Culture Committee\u200a\u2014\u200aand public outcry from several well-known black leaders at the time, the organizers upheld the decision.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taylor Swift, on the other hand, is celebrated more and more, especially among a demographic she would do well to disavow: white supremacists. As Zachary Woolfe writes, Swift\u2019s lily-whiteness has made her the belle of the fascist ball, and yet she refuses to break her increasingly intolerable silence on politics: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/evenmagazine.com\/taylor-swift-zachary-woolfe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Anglin, who writes the avowedly neo-Nazi blog the <em>Daily Stormer<\/em>, has called her \u2018a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry.\u2019<\/a> Another alt-right blogger, this one female, celebrated her as \u2018the embodiment of healthy Southern values.\u2019 And in the post-verbal media of Twitter and Facebook, Swift now frequently appears in mocked-up photos cribbed from her own social-media feed, and kitted out with SS flags, storm-trooper uniforms, swastika armbands, and Gothic-lettered Jew-hatred \u2026 The irony of Swift\u2019s Nazification is that the Wonder Bread pop star is a neurotic curator of her image, emitting only the safest of soft-feminist statements and keeping all other beliefs under wraps.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Centuries before the Heritage Foundation was churning out dubious \u201cresearch studies\u201d to support the Reagan Right, precursors to \u201cthink tanks\u201d were thriving in France, where they served similarly propagandistic ends, Jacob Soll says: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/222421\/think-tanks-jacob-soll-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While the term <em>think tank<\/em>\u00a0is modern, it can be traced to the humanist academies and scholarly networks of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries<\/a> \u2026 In France, in particular, which was famous for its academies and libraries, the crown often called on groups of scholars from the Republic of Letters\u2014a self-styled international network of scholars and experts who corresponded, shared information, and ran archives, libraries and publication projects. When in need of an expert, kings such as Louis XIII would call on figures like\u00a0Godefroy and sent them as experts and representatives to diplomatic meetings.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No one knows where the name John le Carr\u00e9 came from, including David Cornwell, the man who claimed it for himself. But wait\u2014could it be\u2014in the letters of the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em>, one Irving U. Ojalvo reports that he remembers the story from a double date he went on with Cornwell in the early seventies: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/23\/sign-john-le-carre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cornwell seems to have forgotten the origin of his nom de plume<\/a>. If so, I can possibly help to refresh his memory as I had a chance encounter with him \u2026 in a Spanish parador that we were both staying at and over dinner with our respective female companions. During our conversation \u2026 he also stated that he had struck upon the name \u2018le Carr\u00e9\u2019 when in Switzerland where he was intrigued by a sign over a shoe cobbler shop with that name.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the greatest black woman sculptor of the twentieth century; a psychologist against empathy; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[27078,27079,27082,13467,865,3983,27080,27077,7578,3612,13885,964,6887,27081],"class_list":["post-107360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-against-empathy","tag-augusta-savage","tag-double-dates","tag-empathy","tag-france","tag-john-le-carre","tag-neo-nazis","tag-paul-bloom","tag-pseudonyms","tag-psychology","tag-sculptors","tag-sculpture","tag-taylor-swift","tag-think-tanks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering Augusta Savage and the Black Sculpture Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news roundup: the greatest black woman sculptor of the twentieth century; 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