Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement in 1919, these essays circle one question: how can the art of our own time be made better? Clutton-Brock answers both Whistler, who held that art simply happens, and Tolstoy, who judged it by its social use, and argues for a truth between them, ending with the essay “Waste or Creation?”
Clear, humane criticism for readers interested in art and society after the First World War. Download the free EPUB.