LAW FOR ART
, TEACHING GOOD TASTE. “I have just spent five months in Paris, and have been to Czechoslovakia and other places. One thing struck me as extraordinarily important—the new law for art in France,” says Miss Amelia Defries in a speech reported in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. “From the age of five, every child in France is to be educated to appreciate, and otherwise to have good taste. The French have said that they cannot compete with the mass-production companies. That is a very important point, and by that they really mean America and Japan. They say, therefore, that they will fall back on their historic culture and make their stand as the country of excellence in the Arts. They will, as a beginning, show the children that they need not be less intelligent than their ancestors, and that the ways of making a door, for example, are not one but many. They do not envisage a nation of artists, but a discriminating public; and they also think that individuals who are worth training can be trained better than they have been recently. It is worth our while to study this new French law.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 7
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