“ABSURD CRAZE”
Originality In Art ENGLISH PROFESSOR'S VIEWS NZPA Special Correspondent Rec. 8.30 p.m. LONDON Mar. 22. “ Sober people should call a halt to this absurd craze to be original in art,” said Professor A. E. Richardson, professor of architecture at the Royal Academy Schools, in an address to the Royal Society of Arts in London. “Nothing can come of this craze,” continued Professor Richardson. “We must fight against this rubbish, for the prestige of a country depends more upon the truimphs of its art than upon its commercial greatness.” ■ Professor Richardson contended that art lost nothing by remaining static. This was so with the Chinese, and the Renaissance itself was partly a revival of classicism. The finest architecture today, Professor Richardson claimed, was being developed in the underpopulated country of Spain, and not in Britain or America. This was partly due to overcrowding and partly to the lack of patronage and encouragement of art in architecture.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27346, 23 March 1950, Page 7
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