ALLIES IN ART (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Allies in ArtThe point is worth dwelling on for a moment. The most striking thing about this alliance in art is the diversity of aims and interests represented in it. In some cases they seem to be directly opposed. We are often told, and truly, that competition is the ultimate cause of war, and, in the same breath, that competition is the soul of progress. But competition in what P The moment the question is asked one sees that the competition which causes war and the competition which is the soul of progress are on entirely different planes. It is confusion between the two that gives birth to the cowardly lie that war is inevitable in a progressive world.This is not a sentimental evasion of what is called the material side of life. On the contrary, it is a more practical distinction than is generally made between the real world of work and the unreal world of business. Competition in creative or productive labour never did and never could hurt anybody. On the material side of life all the progress is made in the workshop - using the word to include the studio and the laboratory and all the quarrels are made in the market. At a time when we are being urged to organize and extend our industries, of which art is the purest type, it is well to bear this distinction in mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,