American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood (1879)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 318
stically legitimate. His reply was cpiick and clear. Amoral end is legitimate, he said; painters have immoral ends, why cant theyhave moral ones? A good deal of modern art-work is a prostitution of art.A good many pictures excite immoral feelings in the spectator. They havethis effect, whether they… … < 0 z < <►4<IS) 0 oZ D00 w I H wao u.wm Cfl DCQSDJ00 ——=^ ROBERT W. WEIR. 163 into a room where some French figure-pieces are hanging, and she will with-draw her arm from yours and walk out. In Europe, of course, they are moreaccustomed to this sort of thing. But a great deal of French…
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