The Art of the world illustrated in the paintings, statuary, and architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition with Goupil water-color facsimiles, photogravures, and many smaller plates (1893)
New York : D. Appleton · leaf 83
n literature and in paint¬ ing half a dozen of the greatest artists of all time — should have produced Shake¬ speare and Burns, Gainsborough and Turner. Our fond is moral ; the Puritan is ingrained in the English man and the English woman ; and, except for those of us who have become emancipated by… … temperament, and our foreign critics especially are not slow to perceive how readily it lends itself to hypocrisy. What we are here concerned with is its effect upon the national art. Clearly, art can only win its way in a society which judges primarily by the moral and not by the intellectual or…
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) · Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions · Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
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