EPSTEIN'S "CHRIST."
Three apologists fot Epstein's work, seem to require an answer. I give it thus: The symbolic language of Isaiah refers not to personal appearance, but to the utter rejection by an intensely nationalistic people of a universal Message of Good Will. Crude and offensive representations, termed "futuristic," would be more correctly described by the term "atavistic." Tlicy resemble the work of cavemen. Repellant pictures of an object warrant criticism of the object itself. Should not an artist live in the thought and atmosphere of his Divine subject before attempting to represent Him? An image is, in dictionary language, a corporeal representation; a statue. My protest remains. EVA P. CATO.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 106, 7 May 1935, Page 6
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