I'm sorry, Davidson's essay is in
I'll Take My Stand I found a pdf
here. I'm not agrarian, but I tend to agree with them on their view of art as expressing our relationship to (for or against) nature.
Neither do I take Ortega Y Gasset
Dehumanization of Art hook, line, and sinker, but here's his essay (
pdf) from 1925.
As as an artist you might find something interesting in it, just on pages 66 and 67.