David Low
AKE Katherine Mansfield and David Low; each a child of New Zealand, each a genius. But Mr. McCormick gives pages to Katherine Mansfield, two lines to David Low. Why? Because Katherine Mansfield rose to the fulfilment of her genius in a series of stories which interpret and everlastingly illuminate the New Zealand of her childhood. David Low has done no such thing; his genius has found material that is not ours and works with an energy we cannot claim to have influenced. Perhaps, you may suggest, the caricaturist’s free and vigorous satirical sense, his total want of respect for mere rank, place or title; perhaps he owes that to our bold, democratic tradition. Oh no, look round you; how deferential we are to the Honourable Tom Nobody, M.P., Minister of Bungling and Crayfishing, and how mealy-mouthed when we venture to criticise! If Low learned to mock and to prick windbags with his pencil anywhere in the
|| Antipodes, it was in Australia, not here.-
|| HI. E. Schroder in a discussion of
E. H.
Mc
Cormick's
"Art and Letters in New Zealand," i
| 3YA, February 18.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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186David Low New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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