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.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Monday, October 04, 2004
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