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Byzantine wall decorations as "paintings," it does no good in the realm of U.S. Customs to claim a mosaic is "a painting in glass." To Uncle Sam it is "a manufacture of glass" for it does not involve "oil, mineral, water, or other color laid upon the surface by a painter." When Paul Klee laid pigments on an old piece of burlap bag, he was, Uncle Sam would agree, creating a painting. VBut when the young Ita ian/abstract painter Burra makes a collage out of dirty old burlap and other bags and rugs, his work is not even "a manufacture of rags" but, because these are in a state of disintigration, [[strikethrough]] they are [[/strikethrough]] "vegetable substances" and, as such, dutiable at 10 percentum ad valorem.

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The famous Cubist collages have been, of course, considered mere "manufactures of paper," [[strikethrough]] But a protest has been entered in              in the case of a Matisse col age for               , which is now pending. If it is ruled a painting, another idiotic and anachronistic barrier will be broken, (as was another recently when Picasso ceramics were ruled non-utilitarian paintings on an earthenware and thus duty-free.) ?????

   Sometimes, [[strikethrough]] for wrong reasons [[/strikethrough]] starting from different promises, esthetic and legalistic opinions are in agreement. Most art critics would hesitate [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] in calling the enormous diorama entitled "Cotton Picking", which was created for the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, a "work of art." Uncle Sam agreed. But his opinion was based on the fact [[/strikethrough]] 

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