INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO
VOL. LVII. No. 225 Copyright, 1915, by John Lane Company NOVEMBER, 1915

SCULPTURE AT THE PANAMA-
PACIFIC EXPOSITION
| BY CHRISTIAN BRINTON
There can be scant question but that
sculpture as it is currently displayed at our lead-
ing exhibitions fails to attract the general public.
In place of being a focus of interest it is usually
surveyed with ill-disguised indifference or ignored
save by a slender fraction of the chosen few.
Unless something of a sensational character is

on view the plastic arts do not compete upon
even terms with painting, and are hence habitually
relegated to draughty anteroom or sepulchral sub-
cellar. Through continually seeing sculpture
treated in inauspicious fashion we have come to
regard the statue, the relief, or the bust as dif-
ferent phases of the same necessary evil. They
are in brief forms of art which, in the popular
mind at least, do not convincingly justify their
existence.
Such a condition of affairs naturally does not


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