"ART IS NEVER EASY"
Sir,-Referring to your editorial ‘on this subject and to Louis Johnson's letter, I find your editorial wise and Mr. Johnson’s words true, with, of course, those of Mr. McCormick. If we change "Art" to "Fame," isn’t it true that New Zealanders are very impersonal? We don’t like individualists, except perhaps in the world of sport. We never mention our famous men and. women in conversation. No wonder the famous are expatriates, and the wouldbe famous feel licked. Which reminds me that with the exception of John Robert Godley, the founder of Canterbury, there’s not a single famous New Zealander on any of our postage stamps. Could we not include portraits of Rutherford, Katherine Mansfield, Peter Buck and others in a new issue? Our commemorative issues show landscape, ship, maps, people in groups, birds, and even a tuatara, but no famous individual. An issue devoted to a dozen or so of our _most famous statesmen, scientists, sportsmen and artists might change the emotional climate somewhat and make us "seem a little less indifferent.
W. HART
SMITH
(Timaru)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 819, 7 April 1955, Page 5
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