Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 48
te ground along a river bank issecured by the municipality in order that it may benever used for private ends to the exclusion of thepublic ? If that be civic art, what shall we say if thetown, having secured the plot, never develops it; orif, in an effort to improve, it follows wrong coun-sels and… … On a S <; THIlbat Civic Hrt Us. 25 ness of impulse and execution, else the act is notrecognised as art. The child, or untaught man,who would paint a Sistine Madonna and succeeds inmaking only a daub, is not greeted as a master, norhears the work called art, though his impulse beof the highest…
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