THE NEW ART : A Study of the Principles of
Non-Repre- sentational Art and their Application in the Work of Lawrence Atkinson. By Horace Shipp. (Cecil Palmer. 15s. net.)— Mr. Shipp appears to be convinced that all the art of the ages has found its apotheosis in the work of Mr. Lawrence Atkinson. He is so satisfied of this that he even illustrates his book from the works of Mr. Atkinson. But, unfortunately, that test of art theory which he himself admits to be the ultimate, the test of result, does not convince us of the value of Mr. Atkinson. But neither are we convinced by the theory of Mr. Shipp. We are old-fashioned enough to believe that the great Cubists were on the right track, the track that has led them back to representation with an enormously increased knowledge of the structure of form, and we are old-fashioned enough to regard Cezanne as more than the herald of Mr. Atkinson. The title of-Mr. Shipp's book-must-not be-allowed
to mislead readers into the conception that it deals with the vast and important movement that the rest of us mean by New Art."
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