NO CULTURAL AMBITIONS
Sir,-May I suggest that you initiate a column "I know what I dislike" and invite your readers to Contribute to it? Will you allow me to make a beginning and say that I dislike your title pages? They seem to lack both taste and imagination, particularly on ‘special occasions. Your Christmas and Easter issues for instance must have seemed offensive to a good Christian, culturally inept to an agnostic, and aesthetically distressing to a pagan. Surely there’ are enough magnificent pictures of the Nativity and the Resurrection to choose from for
a) Me a oO eee these festive days, instead of giving us second-rate glamour girls and jazz singers? Why have we not seen any memento to Leonardo da Vinci’s 500th Anniversary? Why does The Listener never reproduce any masterpieces on its title page? I suppose we must put up with poor illustrations of the "inside" stories and with "People in the Programme," or at the "Open Microphone" (who incidentally appear over and over again, but I suppose artists and speakers like to see themselves perpetuated in print). But is it too much to ask to have one "decent" picture once in a while, or has The Listener no cultural ambitions at all?
VISUAL
EDUCATION
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 5
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209NO CULTURAL AMBITIONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 5
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