Volume 14, Number 7 · April 9, 1970
Neo-Neoclassicism
By Robert Rosenblum
Neo-classicism
by Hugh Honour
Penguin Books, 221 pp., $2.95
On Neoclassicism
by Mario Praz, translated by Angus Davidson
Northwestern, 400 pp., $12.95
'For a hundred years, sir, the world was humbugged by the so-called classical artists.' So claimed an outraged Thackeray, when surveying the modern French school of painting in his Paris Sketch Book of 1840. 'The intolerable, stupid classicalities,' he explained, 'only weighted the pupils down, and cramped their hands, their eyes, and their imaginations; drove them away from natural beauty, which, thank God, is fresh and attainable by us all, today, and yesterday, and tomorrow; and sent them rambling after artificial grace, without the proper means of judging or attaining it.'
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