Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 433
duty to perform, civic art disclaims it. So thepark, with the warmth and strength of love,—oflove of all the working world, of tender pity for itsweariness and long restraint,—should hold out itsarms to city dwellers, should invite them to itself, 354 fIDobern Civic art until its naturalness and… … CHAPTER XIX.TEMPORARY AND OCCASIONAL DECORATION. TO enter into the life of the people — this was tobe the duty of the park as a component ofthat modern civic art which exists for thepeoples sake. To be itself a product of their life, toowe its very existence to their emotion, its strengthto their…
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