Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 118
there is such animportation there can be no doubt, any more thanthat this condition of things will continue while peoplefancy that they are giving proof of their artistictaste by sticking up all over their walls anything andeverything, good, bad, and indifferent, which professesto come from Japan… … The Living Art —what would an uneducated Jap think ? And letme give my own answer. He would be as muchsurprised by any bad taste or bad art as his educatedsuperior would be. This is the burden of my argument—that art in Japan is universal and instructive, andtherefore living ; not an artificial…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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