Enthusiasm Not Conveyed
‘HE series of seven talks Mirror, of the Age by Eric Westbrook is still proceeding as I write, and there is one talk to go. I have heard three of them. Mr. Westbrook is known for the boldness and clarity of his ideas, which have transformed the Auckland Art Gallery from a Victorian mausoleum into the finest gallery of the country, and he is a leading figure in several other fields; but in the three talks I heard, he gave only one of the qualities for which he is well known, an incisive clarity. I found boldness absent; I was conscious more of an academic dryness. Let me be quite fair: the talks were polished, authoritative and exact, and doubtless no one else in the country could have delivered them, but I missed any touch by which Mr. Westbrook could have placed on them the mark of his own personality. I had a feeling I had read it all before, in the Skira books, perhaps: not the material of course, the style. In default of Mr. Westbrook being able to flourish a painting at us and say: "Isn't that miraculous!" could he not somehow have conveyed some of his own en-
thusiasm?
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 11
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207Enthusiasm Not Conveyed New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 11
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