cross cut selection ?

[Aby]

According to Watkins, who headed the group, the art was to be a “cross cut selection ...that will state strongly and frankly what has
been going on in America since about 1920.W e believe it will be charged
with vitality and the sense of freedom that marks our character.”

[sledopyt]

контекста бы побольше, но consider:

Выбор, по словам Уоткинса, главы группы, должен был представлять собой "срез художественного ландшафта ... который ...