This page has been validated.
x
Contents
Chapter X Page - Loss of comprehensibility—Decadent art—Recent French art—Have we a right to say it is bad and that what we like is good art?—The highest art has always been comprehensible to normal people—What fails to infect normal people is not art
412 Chapter XI - Counterfeits of art produced by: Borrowing; Imitating; Striking; Interesting—Qualifications needful for production of real works of art, and those sufficient for production of counterfeits
436 Chapter XII - Causes of production of counterfeits—Professionalism—Criticism—Schools of art
446 Chapter XIII - Wagner's "Nibelung's Ring" a type of counterfeit art—Its success, and the reasons thereof
455 Chapter XIV - Truths fatal to preconceived views are not readily recognized—Proportion of works of art to counterfeits—Perversion of taste and incapacity to recognize art—Examples
468 Chapter XV - The quality of art, considered apart from its subject-matter—The sign of art: Infectiousness—Incomprehensible to those whose taste is perverted—Conditions of infection: Individuality; Clearness; Sincerity
476 Chapter XVI The quality of art, considered according to its subject-matter—The better the feeling the better the art—The cultured crowd—The religious perception of our age—The new ideals put fresh demands to art—Art unites—Religious
