Art and Experience
T is more true today than ever before that we can make no easy equation ‘between the good and the beautiful, or -s virtue and talent. The good
are often dull and the talented not so good. It is, nevertheless, only human to wish that the gap between two paths of the spirit was not so wide, and occasionally it seems possible to trace a connection which is satisfying. If in Peg Escott’s discursive but absorbing 4YC talk on Katherine Mansfield-via Antony Alpers’s new biography-we understand the word "reality" to include normal community values, then our equation is partly solved. The fanatical desire for "Experience" which | would serve "Art," in Peg Escott’s opinion, drove the young Katherine into the limbo of Bohemia, from which she turned back again to the settings of her childhood for her best stories: that is, back to the more or less normal everyday kind of living. But tempting as the thought may be, more -especially to those who do not greatly care for Katherine Mansfield’s work, it is possible that without her passionate, lopsided devotion to Art this country would have had
one less writer of note.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 10
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196Art and Experience New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 10
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