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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WHAT HAS BECOME OF OUR TASTE? In making this earnest inquiry of the world at large, we do not discriminate in favor either of bad taste or of good taste. Both kinds of taste seem to be at a sad minimum; indeed the present tasteless estate of most of the products of the human imagination is a melancholy thing to conitemplate. If we were passing through an era of downright bad taste, like the middle Victorian or the late-Renaissance, much could be forgiven us, because at least we were making progress even though in the wrong direction. Unfortunately, however, we have not even this excuse. The mental engine of the world is stalled at the foot of the high hill of reconstruction. The motor of the public imagination is delivering no power. It is high time that the passengers get out and look into their car to discover why it is in neutral when it should be in high gear. The war cannot be accused of having foully murdered our taste, because it was already on its death-bed when the war began. All that may be fairly charged up to the war is the ghastly and indefensible destruction of immortal products of taste glorified, like the Cloth Hall at Ypres, the Cathedrals at .A.rras and at Rheims. It is a bill of damages that can never be paid, of course, because it is so huge in these three items alone. But all wars result in such atrocious destructions of the fine products of taste, so that one can at least accept them as an element in the complete philosophy of life and be as resigned as possible. Which is very little. It is hard to be resigned to wars! That taste was gasping its last, shortly before the outbreak of the world war, seems too obvious to make the point worth laboring. When movements in art like Cubism, Futurism, and Post-Impressionism could be esteemed of sufficient inte...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217693486
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 230
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217693482
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 417 gr


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