- In The Principles of Christian Art (Murray, 10s. ad.),
Dr; Percy Gardner covers a wide ground and has much of interest to say on- the spirit and the self-imposed restrictions of a Christian aesthetic. It is, in fact, a book which any man who has an interest. in the foundations of art and conceives it as more than mere technical excellence can read with advantage. It is unfortunate, however, that -in dealing with" modernism in art " the author seems to have stopped short at the end of the nineteenth century. He shows some acquaintance with the more theoretical art criticism of modern French writers; but he writes as if there was still something of a crisis between Impressionism and post-Impressionism ; and as if the insidious doctrine of " art for art's sake " was an. invention of our own
days, urgently calling -kir' repudiation. • '• • * * * *
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