International studio (59.1916)

The Art of David Karfunkle

ATLANTIS BY DAVID KARFUNKLE



The art of david karfunkle
BY WILLIAM B. M’CORMICK
The history of Art has always been

marked with the spirit of unrest that

is paralleled in the history of Man. At their best
these phenomena are but strivings toward a finer
achievement, in the one case of expression, in the

other of a betterment of the social state. And

always they have been starred by disturbances
that we are apt to call revolutions. In the case
of Man these often have tragic consequences; but
it is impossible to look backward over the story
of civilization without realizing their ultimate
results have been for the best. In the history of
Art these revolutions have never been attended

with such grave results; and one may well won-
der if the ends achieved by some of them were
worth the vocal violence and outpouring of the
literature of vituperation always attending them.
For the past twenty years we have been wit-
nessing some such Art revolution that began with
the revival of design as design in the Art Noveau
of Vienna and which has degenerated, through
several notorious phases, into the varied forms of

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