DOI Kapitel:
Chapter III Of the Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art
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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
end do that. And if, as it stands, the
work is a silent influence against
superficiality and emptiness, something
is gained for American life. Glad
sculpture as well as grave sculpture
can exert that influence.
IV
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD
No one is as disdainful of the early
Victorians as the late Victorians used
to be. In the strength of the ’eighties
and ’nineties our studios often re-
sounded with mutterings against the
feebleness of the ’fifties. Perhaps
some envy of certain primitive suc-
cesses was mingled with this righteous
wrath. But after all, our Powerses
and Rogerses were not in the least the
mere early worms their successors
once said they were. A j uster perspec-
tive invites the reflection that Ameri-
can sculpture in its development needed
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD
AMERICAN SCULPTURE
end do that. And if, as it stands, the
work is a silent influence against
superficiality and emptiness, something
is gained for American life. Glad
sculpture as well as grave sculpture
can exert that influence.
IV
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD
No one is as disdainful of the early
Victorians as the late Victorians used
to be. In the strength of the ’eighties
and ’nineties our studios often re-
sounded with mutterings against the
feebleness of the ’fifties. Perhaps
some envy of certain primitive suc-
cesses was mingled with this righteous
wrath. But after all, our Powerses
and Rogerses were not in the least the
mere early worms their successors
once said they were. A j uster perspec-
tive invites the reflection that Ameri-
can sculpture in its development needed
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD