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The artist occupies a unique position vis-avis the society in which he lives. However dependent upon it he may be for his livelihood, he is still somewhat removed from society's immediate struggles for econ-mi and social supremacy. He has no real vested interest in the status quo. What he does have is a deep abiding emotional investment and concern with humanity-the sensitivity to perceive, feel and assimilate and refine the multifarious details of human experience. He is a visionary able to see the configuration of the future in present things, like all people who work in the reals of ideas. He effects change- he chafes at the bit of entrenched conservatism- the custodians of conformity to dying social institutions. He, the artist, is in essence a non-conformist, thereby leaving himself open to suspect as to purpose and social usefulness. This leads inevitably to an imbalance between the artist and society. He is forced to work, to a degree, in isolation. He even is driven to seek to live in a world of his own, that world so romantically referred to as the "ivory tower". Primitive society accepted the artist as functional, an integral part of its social structure-as vital to its existence as the hunter and medicine man- and the artist responded with all the power of his gifts. The dilemma of the artist in society has been recurring through modern society. Today, this psychological burden overwhelms the artist's whole existence. He lives at the mercy of the market for art- he courts favor and glory- he performs for private patrons to satisfy his material needs, far too often to the extent of renouncing ideals and human values for the sake of expediency and monetary success. HE contrives his theories and his art to justify this surrender to the will of little minds. It would appear from certain vantage points, overlooking the arena of the art world, that these artists are in the majority. They are not, I assure you. The majority of the artists of the world are moving into the life of life, and are not backed into the darkened corner of