The Aristos FoundationAristos is published by The Aristos Foundation, a nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of New Jersey in 1986. The Foundation's chief purpose is to deepen public understanding of the nature of art and foster greater understanding and appreciation of traditional values and craft (as opposed to both modernism and postmodernism) in all the arts. In that connection, it champions the work of neglected artists and critics, past and present, who have been eclipsed by the avant garde. In recent years, the Foundation has been active in promoting its goals in the field of K-12 visual art education, in opposition to the inroads of avant-garde work and social and political activism.
In addition to publishing Aristos, the Foundation supports through other means the development and dissemination of the ideas in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000), by Aristos co-editors Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi. It also informs the public about the work and life of cultural historian Jacques Barzun (1907-2012), British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), and Jack Schaefer (1907-1991), author of the classic short novel Shane and a body of regrettably neglected fiction and nonfiction .
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