Anti-Menckenism: Nathanael West, Robert M. Coates, and the Provisional Avant-Garde
We are all too serious about art in America . . . so serious that we treat it as we treat the dead . . . with respect and no attempt at communication. That man who produces works of art is either treated as a god or as a rather ridiculous and useless member of society. As long as this attitude obtains there is little hope for art in America. If groups, cliques, revolutions, movements, tricks will change this we are for groups, cliques, etc. —Anonymous,"Notes on Contributors," The Little Review