Conformity Is The Most Prized Virtue - 1985 Words

â€Å"Society,† Emerson wrote in his timeless treatise on self-reliance and what it really means to be a nonconformist, â€Å"is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.† In such a groupthink society, Emerson cautioned, conformity is the most prized virtue, but whoever wishes to be a true person â€Å"must be a nonconformist.† â€Å"Life would be dull indeed without experimenters and courageous breakers-with-tradition,† wrote Marie Bullock, the courageous founder of the Academy of American Poets, a century later when she rose to defend E.E. Cummings from his detractors in 1951 — detractors who had attacked the Academy for awarding him their†¦show more content†¦Shahn illustrates the value of nonconformity as a catalyst of cultural evolution with the story of the tumult that took place in France when officials proposed that one of the pavilions of the prestigious 1925 Paris Exhibition be set up in the space belonging to the Society of Independent Artists — the collective of nonconformists whose annual exhibitions had been setting the tone for modern art since their formation in 1884. It was suggested that these innovators had done their job and there was no further need for their tradition-upending sensibility, so they should relinquish their space to the traditional art establ ishment. benshahn_nonconformist4 An art critic appalled by the backward proposition responded with twenty-five reasons why the Independents should keep their space and hold their annual exhibition. The reasons he listed were only names — the names of the most recent winners of the Prix de Rome, the venerated French art award that had been conferred upon promising talents in traditional art since 1663. All but one of those names were by then completely unknown. The critic juxtaposed those with the names of twenty-five artists who had presented at the Independents’ exhibition — artists who, as Shahn points out, â€Å"could not by any stretch of the imagination have won such an award [as the Prix de Rome].† Among those wereShow MoreRelatedRomulus My Father Notes1861 Words   |  8 Pagesconcept for my father and Hora. It stood for a settled disposition for which it was possible rightly to admire someone... Honesty, loyalty, courage, charity (taken as a preparedness to help others in need) and a capacity for hard work were the virtues most prized by the men and women I knew then. 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