The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Imitation Again

"Imitation Again." New-York Saturday Press, June 19, 1860, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
art criticism
Abstract

A scathing opinion about John Ruskin's ambiguous argument concerning feeling vs. sight in artwork. The writer believes that sight's progeny will only be reproductions of beautiful landscapes or people, which takes little skill compared to injecting true feeling into one's work.