The meaning of art, its nature, rôle, and value (1913)
Gaultier, Paul, b. 1872, Baldwin, H., Baldwin, E. · London, G. Allen & Company ltd. · leaf 260
more strikingbecause this possibility depends upon the socialforce itself of art. It is really this social forceitself which, turned against itself, so to speak,serves as the vehicle of the separatist tendencieswhich combat the naturally healthful social pro-perties of art. In diffusing these… … ^ THE SOCIAL ROLE OF ART 179 as the statement may seem, with a result bothstrong and efficacious. That is why it is nota valid argument against the social and essenti-ally sociological value of art—to enumerate all thecases in which, through dilettantism or egotism,the accidental or superficial…
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