Monday, October 04, 2004

I have decided that the only interesting and meaningful approach to the subject of Roger Fry is not more facts but a "look at" his aesthetics, the debt to Berenson, the continuation of the lure of the Renaissance by Clark. As a teenager my father suggested I read John Addington Symonds, an odd suggestion when I preferred Archie and Veronica, but he is worth looking at after forty years. Peculiar to modern sensibilities is that infatuation with the Renaisssance.