DOI issue:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0305
Studio-Talk
Ik
conception of civilisation
gaining dominance to
corrupt mankind . . . we
are at fight to assert our
belief in Righteousness
and Human Brotherhood,
and our consequent belief
that the idea of the
supremacy of material
Might, with its inevitable
insidious accompaniment
of fraud and cruelty, as a
basis of civilisation is an
idea foul and damnable."
Coming to the effect or
war upon art, the Pro-
fessor reminded his
hearers that though in
days immediately ahead
the lives of many whose
MEMORIAL TO REV. G. BOHUN COOLCHER IN THE CHURCH OF SS. MICHAEL AND business it is in SOme
ALL ANGELS, MAIDSTONE. DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY HERBERT H. STANSFIELD, ,
CROMER GUILD OF HANDICRAFT IOrm OT SnOtliei tO
produce art will be
that we should fight for our national independence as straitened enough, and too often something much
long as breath is in our bodies. But in the present more than straitened, " the effect of war upon art
war we are doing something more than this. ... We has never been wholly bad ; nay, has on occasion
are at fight to prevent the lowest and most inhuman been quite the reverse of bad." After bidding his
" THE OLD BRIDGE, ST. IVES, HUNTINGDON " PEN SKETCH BY J. CRAMPTON WALKER
(Black and White Artists' Society of Ireland)
302
Ik
conception of civilisation
gaining dominance to
corrupt mankind . . . we
are at fight to assert our
belief in Righteousness
and Human Brotherhood,
and our consequent belief
that the idea of the
supremacy of material
Might, with its inevitable
insidious accompaniment
of fraud and cruelty, as a
basis of civilisation is an
idea foul and damnable."
Coming to the effect or
war upon art, the Pro-
fessor reminded his
hearers that though in
days immediately ahead
the lives of many whose
MEMORIAL TO REV. G. BOHUN COOLCHER IN THE CHURCH OF SS. MICHAEL AND business it is in SOme
ALL ANGELS, MAIDSTONE. DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY HERBERT H. STANSFIELD, ,
CROMER GUILD OF HANDICRAFT IOrm OT SnOtliei tO
produce art will be
that we should fight for our national independence as straitened enough, and too often something much
long as breath is in our bodies. But in the present more than straitened, " the effect of war upon art
war we are doing something more than this. ... We has never been wholly bad ; nay, has on occasion
are at fight to prevent the lowest and most inhuman been quite the reverse of bad." After bidding his
" THE OLD BRIDGE, ST. IVES, HUNTINGDON " PEN SKETCH BY J. CRAMPTON WALKER
(Black and White Artists' Society of Ireland)
302