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The Representative Art [for the New York Saturday Press]

Robinson. "The Representative Art [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, June 19, 1860, 3.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

Robinson replies to an essayist who claims that today's theater is the representative art of the current age. Robinson argues that theater lives and dies with the actor; that a play can vary from performance to performance, and thus cannot be compared to a purer form of art such as sculpture or architecture.