American painters : with one hundred and four examples of their work engraved on wood (1881)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 320
stically legitimate. His reply was quick 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… … 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 art is reallylewd and immoral, whatever people may say they think…
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