29962: Benson (reply) RE: 29926: Minsky: (announce) in NJ starting Jan 31 art exhibition from Demme's collection (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Legrace Benson <legrace@twcny.rr.com>

From: LeGrace Benson:  Remarks on Haitian (and Caribbean) art at Berrie
Center.  Both Johanathan Demme's collection and that left to Ramapo College
by the late Selden Rodman are worth the trip to Ramapo from the city.  Note
that in accord with odman's preference, his collection is denoted "popular"
rather than "naive" or "primitive".  Rodman made this important distinction
from the beginning of his work at the Centre d' Art in the late 1940's,
drawing attention to the fact that the works were by and from the ordinary
people of Haiti.  This avoided the primitive and naive labels objectionable
to so many.  The works on view are of outstanding merit.