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Show Europe's Art Objects Really Second Rate? The treasury of Europe, that vast 1 litter of the work of their grandfa thers, which the posters preach, is as miscellaneous and unequal as a Jackdaw's Jack-daw's swag In the hollow tree, and no one knows the good trotn the bad. de Clares William Bolltho In Vanity Fair "All artistic criticism." declares thl iconoclast, "is as dead in Europe as was s-ciemific In the Middle ages. The same Frenchman who Insists that you do the dusty Journey to wind-swept Versailles to worship the monstrous palace, where even the Impenetrable stolidity of an architect who could make over three hundred yards of bays in exact repetition cannot disguise dis-guise the Ill-judged megalomania ot the monarch who Insisted that his fa ther's limiting box should he hull! Into the center of the largest pa lac-in lac-in the world, will rush you with a sickly smile prist the magnificent and serene F.ilTel tower. "The grand staircase ot the Chateau of I'.lois is stuck on and superfluous: the greatest German cathedral Cologne, Is nakedly, appallingly out of scale, too short for its height, and In stead of that lovely Gothic sensation of soaring to the heavens, give the spectator a dull pain between tbe eyes; detailed mention of all Instances that clutter my memory would not exhaust ex-haust the case." Whether good or bad, he concludes, anything built before be-fore ISM is reverenced as being artistic. |