POLITICS AND ART

ART would gain, and so would history, if the great artists of our day could bring themselves to participate in public affairs. We feel that the art of an age should be the symbol of its life. As students of history we are perplexed when it is otherwise. And yet what has the art of our time done to s...

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Published in:The New monthly, Jan.-Oct. 1882 Jan.-Oct. 1882, 1880-09, Vol.118 (705), p.275-282
Main Author: CAINE, T H HALL
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:ART would gain, and so would history, if the great artists of our day could bring themselves to participate in public affairs. We feel that the art of an age should be the symbol of its life. As students of history we are perplexed when it is otherwise. And yet what has the art of our time done to symbolise the life peculiar to it? It has done something and left much undone.
ISSN:2043-5193